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Results for: "background"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

background — part of picture
→ fons m
→ rerefons m
background — relevant information
→ antecedents m/pl
background — social heritage
→ bagatge m

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (8)

1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training;
- Example: "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground;
- Example: "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
[syn: background, ground]

3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem;
- Example: "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
[syn: background, background knowledge]

4. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured;
- Example: "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
[syn: background, background signal]

5. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation;
- Example: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

6. the state of the environment in which a situation exists;
- Example: "you can't do that in a university setting"
[syn: setting, background, scope]

7. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear;
[syn: background, desktop, screen background]

8. scenery hung at back of stage;
[syn: backdrop, background, backcloth]


VERB (1)

1. understate the importance or quality of;
- Example: "he played down his royal ancestry"
[syn: background, play down, downplay]