Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
barcolongo
becrowding
becrowding
verb
present participle of becrowd
bescouring
biographic
biographic
adj
biographical
blocksburg
boschneger
brachylogy
brachylogy
noun
(rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"
Concise speech; laconism.
canonsburg
clobbering
clobbering
adj
That clobbers.
noun
(informal) A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
verb
present participle of clobber
clubmonger
coalbagger
coatbridge
comburgess
comburgess
noun
A fellow burgess.
combwright
corbelling
corbelling
noun
A series of corbels or piece of continuous corbelled masonry.
verb
present participle of corbel
corrigible
corrigible
adj
(obsolete) Deserving chastisement.
(obsolete) Having power to correct.
(obsolete) Submissive to correction
Able to be corrected or set right.
corrigibly
corrigibly
adv
In a corrigible manner; such that it can be corrected.
ergophobic
ergophobic
adj
averse to doing work
gabbroitic
glencarbon
goldbricks
goldbricks
noun
plural of goldbrick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goldbrick
jacobsburg
lockesburg
richebourg
schoenberg
schoenburg
scottsburg
scottsburg
Proper noun
a city in Indiana, USA
an unincorporated community in Indiana.
a small town in Virginia, USA.
strongback
strongback
noun
(carpentry) A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post.
(nautical) A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501)
(nautical) The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501)
(sculpture) A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures.
(space science) A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.