Definition of Backgrounds

1. Noun. (plural of background) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of background) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backgrounds

1. background [v] - See also: background

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backgrounds

background knowledge
background level
background music
background noise
background process
background processes
background processing
background radiation
background radiations
background retinopathy
background signal
backgrounded
backgrounder
backgrounders
backgrounding
backgrounds (current term)
backhand
backhand(a)
backhand drive
backhand shot
backhand stroke
backhanded
backhanded compliment
backhanded compliments
backhandedly
backhandedness
backhander
backhanders
backhanding
backhands

Literary usage of Backgrounds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1905)
"WHARTON'S "ITALIAN backgrounds."* Mrs. Wharton's rapidly but soundly ... But it is only in the final essay, on "Italian backgrounds," that one gets a clew ..."

2. Photographic Mosaics by Edward Livingston Wilson, Mathew Carey Lea (1895)
"As a general rule, dark mounts are more artistic with dark backgrounds, and light-colored mounts with light or vignetted backgrounds, as it avoids what is ..."

3. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings And by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"As discussed below, not only can natural bioaerosol backgrounds be large compared to the biothreat agents that must be distinguished, but concentrations can ..."

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