Heritage vs. Background — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Heritage and Background
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Heritage
Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance
They had stolen his grandfather's heritage
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
Heritage
A special or individual possession; an allotted portion
God's love remains your heritage
Background
The circumstances or situation prevailing at a particular time or underlying a particular event
The political and economic background
Background information
Heritage
Christians, or the ancient Israelites, seen as God's chosen people.
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Background
Form a background to
Windswept land backgrounded by the Rockies
Heritage
Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.
Background
Provide with background
The embassy backgrounded American reporters
Heritage
Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
Background
The ground or scenery located behind something.
Heritage
The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright
A heritage of affluence and social position.
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.
Heritage
A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.
Background
The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed.
Heritage
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
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.
Heritage
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
Background
(Computers) The environment in which programs operate that the user does not engage with directly
Processes that run in the background.
Heritage
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
Background
The circumstances and events surrounding or leading up to an event or occurrence.
Heritage
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
A heritage speaker; a heritage language
The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.
Background
A person's experience, training, and education
Her background in the arts is impressive.
Heritage
That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
Part of my heritage,Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Background
The cultural or social environment in which a person was brought up or has lived
A class with students from many different backgrounds.
Heritage
A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
Background
Subdued music played especially as an accompaniment to dialogue in a dramatic performance.
Heritage
Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;
A heritage of freedom
Background
Sound that intrudes on or interferes with an audio recording.
Heritage
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
My only inheritance was my mother's blessing
The world's heritage of knowledge
Background
Low-level radiation, as from radioactive decay, that exists as part of the natural environment.
Heritage
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Background
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
Background noise
The antivirus program runs on a background thread.
Heritage
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
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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