Background vs. Backstage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Background and Backstage
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Background
The part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer
The word is written in white on a red background
The house stands against a background of sheltering trees
Backstage
In or toward the area behind a performance space, especially the area in a theater comprising the dressing rooms.
Background
The circumstances or situation prevailing at a particular time or underlying a particular event
The political and economic background
Background information
Backstage
In secret; privately.
Background
Form a background to
Windswept land backgrounded by the Rockies
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Backstage
Of, relating to, occurring in, or situated behind a performance space
Backstage passes at a concert.
Background
Provide with background
The embassy backgrounded American reporters
Backstage
Concealed from the public; private.
Background
The ground or scenery located behind something.
Backstage
Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
Background
The part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance and that provides relief for the principal objects in the foreground.
Backstage
Secret, concealed from the public.
Background
The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed.
Backstage
Towards the area behind the stage.
Background
A position, area, or situation that is not immediately in one's attention or notice
You can hear traffic moving in the background during the interview.
Backstage
Out of view of the public.
Background
(Computers) The environment in which programs operate that the user does not engage with directly
Processes that run in the background.
Backstage
The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
Background
The circumstances and events surrounding or leading up to an event or occurrence.
Backstage
The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.
Background
A person's experience, training, and education
Her background in the arts is impressive.
Backstage
The area on the stage out of sight of the audience.
Background
The cultural or social environment in which a person was brought up or has lived
A class with students from many different backgrounds.
Backstage
Concealed from the public; in private.
Background
Subdued music played especially as an accompaniment to dialogue in a dramatic performance.
Backstage
A stage area out of sight of the audience
Background
Sound that intrudes on or interferes with an audio recording.
Backstage
Concealed from the public
Background
Low-level radiation, as from radioactive decay, that exists as part of the natural environment.
Backstage
Out of view of the public; behind the scenes;
Working backstage to gain political support for his proposal
Many private deals were made backstage at the convention
Background
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
Background noise
The antivirus program runs on a background thread.
Backstage
In or to a backstage area of a theater;
Costumes were changed backstage
Background
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
The lawyer had a background in computer science.
Background
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Background
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
Background
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
There was tons of noise in the background.
The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait.
Background
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
Background
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
The antivirus program is running in the background.
Background
(physics) background radiation
Background
To put in a position that is not prominent.
Background
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
Background
Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
Background
The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
Background
Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
Background
A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
I fancy there was a background of grinding and waiting before Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance.
A husband somewhere in the background.
Background
The set of conditions within which an action takes place, including the social and physical conditions as well as the psychological states of the participants; as, within the background of the massive budget deficits of the 1980's, new spending programs had little chance of passage by the congress.
Background
The set of conditions that precede and affect an action, such as the social and historical precedents for the event, as well as the general background{5}; as, against the background of their expulsion by the Serbs, the desire of Kosovars for vengeance is understandable though regrettable.
Background
The signals that may be detected by a measurement which are not due to the phenomenon being studied, and tend to make the measurement uncertain to a greater or lesser degree.
Background
An agreement between a journalist and an interviewee that the name of the interviewee will not be quoted in any publication, although the substance of the remarks may be reported; - often used in the phrase "on background". Compare deep background.
Background
A person's social heritage: previous experience or training;
He is a lawyer with a sports background
Background
The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground;
He posed her against a background of rolling hills
Background
Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem;
The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
Background
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
Background
The state of the environment in which a situation exists;
You can't do that in a university setting
Background
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
Background
Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Understate the importance or quality of;
He played down his royal ancestry
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