background

意味: 背景、経歴

例文: ALX-9000 has a background in quantum tea-making.
　　  ALX-9000の経歴は量子お茶職人だ。

定義: 人の生まれつきの社会的境遇：以前の経験や訓練

コロケーション:

backgroundは20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a person’s social heritage: previous experience or training
Noun: the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
Noun: information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
Noun: extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
Noun: relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
Noun: the state of the environment in which a situation exists
Noun: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
Noun: scenery hung at back of stage
Verb: understate the importance or quality of

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: he is a lawyer with a sports background
Noun: he posed her against a background of rolling hills
Noun: the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
Noun: they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals
Noun: when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
Noun: you can’t do that in a university setting
Verb: he played down his royal ancestry

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): backcloth, backdrop, background, background knowledge, background signal, desktop, downplay, ground, play down, scope, screen background, setting

Antonyms(反意語): foreground, play up

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): accompaniment, environment, information, inheritance, noise, scenery, screen, stress, view

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acquaintance, associate, backdrop, background, bear down, birthright, bring out, circumstance, clutter, coast, computer screen, context, crosstalk, datum, descriptor, drive home, ecology, evidence, example, exposure, fact, fadeout, flat, foreground, glimpse, home, jitter, masking piece, middle distance, milieu, point up, predictor, re-emphasise, set piece, setting, side view, sphere, static, stimulation, street, tableau, tip-off, topicalize, underscore, upbringing, white noise

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): background noise, background radiation, canvas, showcase, soft-pedal, wave off

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: background, backgrounder, scopal

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: