What's the difference between background and context?

Background


Definition:

  • (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
  • (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
  • (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
  • (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
  • (2) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (3) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (4) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (5) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (6) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (7) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
  • (8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (9) The aim of the study was to describe and evaluate background factors, with special regard to psychosocial characteristics that might possibly affect the outcome of rhinoplastic surgery.
  • (10) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
  • (11) Subjects' musical backgrounds were evaluated with a survey questionnaire.
  • (12) After 10-20 hr of culture, both membrane and cytoplasmic PKC activity had declined to background levels.
  • (13) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (14) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (15) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
  • (16) The technique is based on a multiple regression analysis of the renal curves and separate heart and soft tissue curves which together represent background activity.
  • (17) The electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) mode of operation of an energy-filtering electron microscope offers the possibility of being able to avoid the background from inelastic scattering in selected-area electron diffraction patterns.
  • (18) The absence of ACh therefore appears to reduce the cortical response to stimulation, while background activity values do not change.
  • (19) President Essebsi has promiised to govern for all Tunisians and said he had the technocratic background to manage security and economic challenges.
  • (20) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.

Context


Definition:

  • (a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
  • (n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
  • (v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (5) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
  • (6) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (7) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (8) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (9) Therefore, it is now important to look at TGF-alpha in its normal physiological context.
  • (10) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
  • (11) A very important point to consider in this context is the immunological situation in the female genital tract which is a target organ for sex hormones.
  • (12) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
  • (13) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
  • (14) A patient with long lasting non-parathyroid hormone mediated hypercalcaemia occurring within the context of hepatitis B virus chronic hepatitis is reported.
  • (15) A theory which includes the individual's activity as an essential mediator between the individual and the context is outlined.
  • (16) The issue has arisen in both a due process context and an equal protection context.
  • (17) Minor and major congenital anomalies were studied in 395 neonatal risk children and 107 normal school children at the age of nine in the context of follow-up of the risk children.
  • (18) Our results indicate that the Ah receptor-dependent, dioxin-responsive enhancer can activate transcription when in a regulatory context and in a chromosomal location different from those of the cytochrome P450iA1 gene.
  • (19) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
  • (20) England’s next assignments, to put it into context, come against San Marino and Estonia in October.