English to English
noun
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
He is a lawyer with a sports background.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
He posed her against a background of rolling hills.
source: WordNet 3.0
- information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident.
source: WordNet 3.0
- extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals.
source: WordNet 3.0
- relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
You can't do that in a university setting.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
source: WordNet 3.0
- scenery hung at back of stage
source: WordNet 3.0
- Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- understate the importance or quality of
He played down his royal ancestry.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
noun
- [bácgraund] Ang looban sa likuran ng bahay
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
