different between background vs thems
background
English
Etymology
back +? ground
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæk.??a?nd/
Adjective
background (not comparable)
- Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
Antonyms
- conspicuous, foreground, forestanding, primary, prominent
Noun
background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)
- One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
- A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
- Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
- A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
- (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
- (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)
- 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.
- 2006, Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, page 163:
- (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
Spanish
Noun
background m (plural backgrounds)
- background
background From the web:
- what background check
- what backgrounds are available on zoom
- what background processes can i end
- what background app refresh
- what background is zayn malik
- what background processes can i disable
- what background tasks can i close
- what background apps are running
thems
English
Pronoun
thems
- (Appalachia, colloquial) variant of those.
See also
- them
Anagrams
- meths
thems From the web:
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- what theme parks are open
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- what theme is conveyed in sister and brother
- what theme parks are in orlando
- what theme is explored in both passages
- what theme is emphasized in this excerpt from ode
- what theme is prominent in the ramayana
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