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background


background - noun

  • a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
  • the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
  • information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
  • extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
  • relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
  • the state of the environment in which a situation exists
  • (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
  • scenery hung at back of stage

    • background - verb

    • understate the importance or quality of

    background - thesaurus

    backcloth   backdrop   desktop   downplay   ground   scope   setting  

    Scrabble score for background

    b is 3 a is 1 c is 3 k is 5 g is 2 r is 1 o is 1 u is 1 n is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 20

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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