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Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- definition the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- definition information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
- definition extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
- definition relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
- definition the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- definition (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- definition scenery hung at back of stage
- definition understate the importance or quality of