different between background vs training

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?e?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?n??
• Hyphenation: train?ing

Verb

training

1. present participle of train

Noun

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

1. Action of the verb to train. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
3. The result of good social upbringing.
4. (computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
5. (voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

Usage notes

• The plural trainings, for more than one training session, is not often used.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• atrining

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English training.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tre?.n??/
• Hyphenation: trai?ning
• Rhymes: -e?n??

Noun

training m (plural trainingen or trainings)

1. training (imparting or acquisition of skills, esp. in exercise and sports, also in chiefly extracurricular education)
2. a training session

Derived terms

• trainingsbroek
• trainingskamp
• trainingspak
• voetbaltraining

Spanish

Noun

training m (plural trainings)

1. training