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38 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• background adj. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
• background n. One’s social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
• background n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
• background n. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
• background n. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
• background n. (Computing) The image or color over which a computer’s desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
• background n. (Computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
• background n. (Physics) Clipping of background radiation.
• background v. To put in a position that is not prominent.
• background v. (Journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
• background v. Simple past tense and past participle of backgrind.
• back␣ground n. Obsolete form of background.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Romanian
  • background n. Background.

— English words, defined in French —

• background n. Fond.
• background n. Arrière-plan.
• background n. Formation.
• background n. Contexte.
• background n. Antécédents.
• background n. Origine.
• background n. Historique.
• background n. Milieu.
• background adj. (Informatique) De fond.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• background s. Fondo, trasfondo.
• background s. Historial, antecedentes.
• background s. Segundo plano.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• background adj. De fundo, de pano de fundo, de plano de fundo.
• background adj. Em pano de fundo, em plano de fundo, em segundo plano.
• background s. (Interface gráfica⚠) plano de fundo.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• background s. Sfondo, ambiente.
• background s. Contesto.

— In Dutch —

• background n. Wat iemand in het verleden heeft gedaan en misdaan.

— In French —

• background n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Contexte.
• background n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Arrière-plan.
• background n.m. (Informatique) Structure préexistante avant un nouveau…

— In Italian —

• background s. (Forestierismo) sfondo, retroscena di un avvenimento: complesso…
• background s. (Forestierismo) in riferimento a una persona, retroterra.
• background s. (Per estensione) insieme di virtù, attributi, doti e qualità…
• background s. (Forestierismo) (informatica) modalità di esecuzione di un…

80 English words from 13 English definitions

about activity and application are as␣opposed␣to backgrind background background␣radiation behind Clipping color computer Computing context current depicts desktop did did␣in events feature foreground form gather heritage history icons image important information in␣the␣past items Journalism less life main normally not noticeable Obsolete one opposed over part participle past past␣participle past␣tense Physics picture position previous prominent provide put put␣in radiation rear relevant scene scenery shown Simple Simple␣past situation social subject system tense that that␣is the to␣the type user visible what which windows

18 English words from 25 foreign definitions

Arrière avant Canada doti fond Formation het Historial Interface Milieu nouveau pano Per persona plan Segundo Structure Wat

42 foreign words from 25 foreign definitions

ambiente Anglicisme antecedentes Antécédents Arrière-plan attributi avvenimento complesso Contesto Contexte de␣plano esecuzione estensione Fondo Forestierismo fundo gedaan gráfica heeft Historique iemand informatica Informatique insieme Interface␣gráfica misdaan modalità Origine pano␣de␣fundo Per␣estensione plano préexistante qualità retroscena retroterra riferimento segundo sfondo trasfondo una verleden virtù

16 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

backgrounds backgroundy backgrounded backgrounder backgrounders backgrounding backgroundings background␣check background␣music background␣checks background␣fodder background␣process background␣processes background␣radiation background␣processing background␣radiations

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

superbackgrounds low-background␣lead low-background␣steel

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

on␣background low-background deep␣background multibackground superbackground

19 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

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10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cab Cab CAB DNU Nuo org org. Org. UoR UOR

3 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

backgrounds backgroundy black␣durgon

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

backround roundback

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

backround

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