different between background vs contextual

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

English

Etymology

context +? -ual.

Adjective

contextual (comparative more contextual, superlative most contextual)

1. Of, pertaining to, or depending on the context of information; relating to the situation or location in which the information was found.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

context +? -al

Adjective

contextual (masculine and feminine plural contextuals)

1. contextual

Derived terms

• contextualitzar

Further reading

• “contextual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contextual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “contextual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Romanian

Etymology

From French contextuel

Adjective

contextual m or n (feminine singular contextual?, masculine plural contextuali, feminine and neuter plural contextuale)

1. contextual

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

contexto +? -al

Adjective

contextual (plural contextuales)

1. contextual

Derived terms

• contextualizar

Further reading

• “contextual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.