different between background vs contactus

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of conting? (“touch on all sides”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?ta?k.tus/, [k?n??t?ä?kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?tak.tus/, [k?n??t??kt?us]

Participle

cont?ctus (feminine cont?cta, neuter cont?ctum); first/second-declension participle

1. touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides
2. reached, arrived at, having been reached
3. touched, affected, moved, having been moved

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

cont?ctus m (genitive cont?ct?s); fourth declension

1. The act of touching; contact, touch.
2. A contagion, infection.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Related terms

• cont?g?s
• cont?gi? / cont?gium / cont?men
• cont?gi?sus

Descendants

• ? English: contact
• Russian: ???????? (kontákt)

References

• contactus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contactus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contactus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette