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Results for: "background"

Translating from English to Icelandic

Translations:

background — part of picture
→ bakgrunnur m
background — relevant information
→ bakgrunnur m
→ bakgrunnsupplýsingar pl
background — social heritage
→ bakgrunnur

More translations:

background
→ bakgrunnur
background
→ forsaga
background
→ uppruni

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 8

  1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

    • “he is a lawyer with a sports background”

  2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

    • “he posed her against a background of rolling hills”
    Synonymsground

  3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

    • “the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident”
    Synonymsbackground knowledge
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  1. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

    • “they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals”
    Synonymsbackground signal

  2. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

    • “when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background”

  3. the state of the environment in which a situation exists

    • “you can't do that in a university setting”
    Synonymssettingscope

  4. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

    Synonymsdesktopscreen background

  5. scenery hung at back of stage

    Synonymsbackdropbackcloth

VERB 1

  1. understate the importance or quality of

    • “he played down his royal ancestry”
    Synonymsplay downdownplay