BACKGROUND | • background adj. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. • background n. One’s social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. • background n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. |
BACKGROUNDED | • backgrounded v. Simple past tense and past participle of background. • backgrounded adj. Moved to the background. • backgrounded adj. (Computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive. |
BACKGROUNDER | • backgrounder n. (Chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives… • backgrounder n. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon. • backgrounder n. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation. |
BACKGROUNDERS | • backgrounders n. Plural of backgrounder. • BACKGROUNDER n. an off the record briefing for reporters. |
BACKGROUNDING | • backgrounding v. Present participle of background. • backgrounding n. The act by which something is backgrounded, in any sense. • backgrounding n. An intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot, during which… |
BACKGROUNDS | • backgrounds n. Plural of background. • backgrounds v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background. • BACKGROUND v. to provide with background. |
BECLOUDING | • beclouding v. Present participle of becloud. • beclouding n. The process of becoming clouded or obscured. • BECLOUD v. to make dim, cloud. |
BLOODCURDLING | • bloodcurdling adj. Causing great horror or terror. • blood-curdling adj. Causing terror or horror. • BLOODCURDLING adj. arousing fright or horror. |
BLOODCURDLINGLY | • bloodcurdlingly adv. In a bloodcurdling manner. • BLOODCURDLING adv. arousing fright or horror. |
BLOODSUCKING | • bloodsucking adj. (Of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. • bloodsucking adj. (By extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading. • blood-sucking adj. Alternative form of bloodsucking. |
COACHBUILDING | • coachbuilding n. The construction of coaches. • COACHBUILDING n. the craft of building coaches. |
COACHBUILDINGS | • COACHBUILDING n. the craft of building coaches. |
COLOURBREEDING | • colourbreeding v. Present participle of colourbreed. • COLOURBREED v. to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour, also COLORBREED. |
CONGLOBULATED | • conglobulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of conglobulate. • CONGLOBULATE v. to form into a ball. |
COUNTERBIDDING | • counterbidding v. Present participle of counterbid. |
CUPBOARDING | • cupboarding v. Present participle of cupboard. • CUPBOARD v. to store. |
DEBOUCHING | • debouching v. Present participle of debouche. • DEBOUCH v. to emerge or issue from a narrow area into the open. |
SUBINTRODUCING | • SUBINTRODUCE v. to bring in surreptitiously or subtly. |