Tra từ background - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training (Freq. 8)
- he is a lawyer with a sports background
• Hypernyms:
inheritance, heritage
2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground (Freq. 5)
- he posed her against a background of rolling hills
• Syn:
ground
• Hypernyms:
view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama
3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem (Freq. 5)
- the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
• Syn:
background knowledge
• Derivationally related forms:
backgrounder
• Hypernyms:
information
4. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured (Freq. 2)
- they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals
• Syn:
background signal
• Hypernyms:
noise, interference, disturbance
• Hyponyms:
background noise, ground noise, background radiation
5. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation (Freq. 2)
- when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
• Hypernyms:
accompaniment, concomitant, attendant, co-occurrence
6. the state of the environment in which a situation exists (Freq. 1)
- you can't do that in a university setting
• Syn:
setting, scope
• Derivationally related forms:
scopal (for: scope)
• Hypernyms:
environment
• Hyponyms:
canvas, canvass, showcase, show window
7. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
• Syn:
desktop, screen background
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
screen, CRT screen
8. scenery hung at back of stage
• Syn:
backdrop, backcloth
• Hypernyms:
scenery, scene

II - verb

understate the importance or quality of
- he played down his royal ancestry
• Syn:
play down, downplay
• Ant:
play up (for: play down), foreground
• Hypernyms:
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
• Hyponyms:
wave off, soft-pedal
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something