Meaning : A person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
Example :
He is a lawyer with a sports background.
Meaning : The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.
Example :
He posed her against a background of rolling hills.
Synonyms : ground
Meaning : Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.
Example :
The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident.
Synonyms : background knowledge
Meaning : Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured.
Example :
They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals.
Synonyms : background signal
Meaning : Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation.
Example :
When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background.
Meaning : (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear.
Synonyms : desktop, screen background
Meaning : Understate the importance or quality of.
Example :
He played down his royal ancestry.
Synonyms : downplay, play down
Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent.
The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics.