Synonyms of the word

background

• adj. Less important in a scene.
• n. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
• n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
• n. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
• n. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
• n. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application…
• n. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
• v. To put in a position that is not prominent.

accent

• n. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in…
• n. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• n. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent,…
• n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• n. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does…
• n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• n. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• n. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• n. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• n. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• n. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• n. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• n. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
• n. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes…
• n. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in…
• n. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
• n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail…
• n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• n. A distinctive feature or quality.
• n. (archaic) Utterance.
• v. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• v. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• v. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

accentuate

• v. (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
• v. (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a written accent.

accompaniment

• n. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music,…
• n. That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness…

aspect

• n. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
• n. The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
• n. The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
• n. A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
• n. One's appearance or expression.
• n. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction;…
• n. Prospect; outlook.
• n. (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal…
• n. (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular…
• n. (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
• n. (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
• n. (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a…

attendant

• n. One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
• n. A servant or valet.
• n. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
• adj. Going with; associated; concomitant.
• adj. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

backcloth

• n. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

backdrop

• n. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
• n. The setting or background of a historical event.
• n. An image that serves as a visual background.
• v. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

co-occurrence

• n. (uncountable) The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.
• n. (countable) An instance of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; co-incidence.

concomitant

• adj. Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
• n. Something happening or existing at the same time.
• n. (algebra) An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and…

desktop

• n. The top surface of a desk.
• n. (computing) A desktop computer.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually…
• adj. Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
• adj. (computing) Of an application, designed to be run on a personal computer.

disturbance

• n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
• n. Something that disturbs.
• n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
• n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
• n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

downplay

• v. (transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.

emphasise

• v. (British) Alternative spelling of emphasize.

emphasize

• v. (transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

heritage

• n. An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
• n. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families…
• n. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
• n. (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

information

• n. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
• n. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
• n. (law) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform…
• n. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
• n. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
• n. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
• n. (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its…
• n. (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
• n. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
• n. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
• n. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
• n. (IT industry jargon) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

inheritance

• n. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
• n. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
• n. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
• n. (programming, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts…

interference

• n. The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
• n. (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
• n. (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves, such as a distortion on a broadcast…
• n. (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of…
• n. (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing…

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

panorama

• n. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
• n. A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.
• n. (figuratively) a comprehensive survey.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

punctuate

• v. To add punctuation to.
• v. To add or to interrupt at regular intervals.
• v. To emphasize, to stress.

scene

• n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
• n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the…
• n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go…
• n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence,…
• n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play,…
• n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their…
• n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
• n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often,…
• n. An element of fiction writing.
• n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere…
• v. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

scenery

• n. View, natural features, landscape.
• n. Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

scope

• n. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
• n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• n. (computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
• n. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
• n. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
• n. (slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
• v. To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
• v. (slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
• v. (slang) To examine under a microscope.

screen

• n. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
• n. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing…
• n. The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
• n. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
• n. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
• n. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects.
• n. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball…
• n. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by…
• n. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame…
• n. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's…
• n. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection,…
• n. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
• v. To filter by passing through a screen.
• v. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
• v. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
• v. To fit with a screen.
• v. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility…
• v. To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds…

setting

• v. present participle of set.
• n. The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
• n. The act of setting.
• n. A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
• n. A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
• n. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
• n. Hunting with a setter.
• n. Something set in, or inserted.
• n. A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
• adj. that disappears below the horizon.

stress

• n. (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
• n. (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
• n. (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting…
• n. (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
• n. (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
• n. (uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
• n. Obsolete form of distress.
• n. (Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
• v. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
• v. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
• v. (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
• v. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
• v. To emphasise (words in speaking).
• v. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

vista

• n. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or a passage.
• n. A site offering such a view.
• n. (figuratively) A vision, a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.