Kamus: English-Malay Dictionary : Background

English Definition

noun

background: a person's social heritage: previous experience or training "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
background, ground: the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
background, background knowledge: information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
background, background signal: 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"
background: relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
setting, background, scope: the state of the environment in which a situation exists "you can't do that in a university setting"
background, desktop, screen background: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
backdrop, background, backcloth: scenery hung at back of stage

verb

background, play down, downplay: understate the importance or quality of "he played down his royal ancestry" Antonym: foreground

Translation

Chinese	bèi jǐng, běn dǐ, dǐ, 底, 本底, 背景, 底, 本底, 背景
Dutch	achtergrond
French	arriere-plan
German	hintergrund
Greek	φόντο
Italian	antefatto
Japanese	enkei, haikei, kage, kakiwari, koukei, mimoto, rimen, rireki, sujou, えんけい, かきわり, かげ, こうけい, すじょう, はいけい, みもと, りめん, りれき, バックグラウンド, 履歴, 後景, 書き割り, 種姓, 素姓, 素性, 素生, 翳, 背景, 蔭, 裏面, 身元, 身許, 遠景, 陰
Malay	latar belakang
Norwegian	bakgrunn
Polish	pochodzenia
Russian	фон, задний план
Serbian	poreklo , pozadina, sredina , u drugom planu, dno
Spanish	fondo, historial, de fondo
Swedish	bakgrund

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