different between background vs anonymous

English

Etymology

back +? ground

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk.??a?nd/

Adjective

background (not comparable)

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

Antonyms

• conspicuous, foreground, forestanding, primary, prominent

Noun

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

1. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

2. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
3. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).

5. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
6. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.

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Verb

background (third-person singular simple present backgrounds, present participle backgrounding, simple past and past participle backgrounded)

1. To put in a position that is not prominent.
   • 2006, Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, page 163:

     One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded.

2. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).

Spanish

Noun

background m (plural backgrounds)

1. background

English

Etymology

Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (an?numos, “without name”), from ???- (an-, “un-”) with ????? (ónuma), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ????? (ónoma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?n?m?s/
• Rhymes: -?n?m?s

Adjective

anonymous (comparative more anonymous, superlative most anonymous)

1. (not comparable) Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.

   Synonym: nameless

2. (not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible

3. (not comparable) Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

   Synonyms: unidentified, unknown, unnamed

4. (comparable, figuratively) Lacking individuality.

   Synonym: faceless

Synonyms

• (without consideration of prestige or background): on the merits

Antonyms

• onymous

Derived terms

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See also

• anonymous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John Doe
• unknown

References

• anonymous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• anonymous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.