(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.
Underneath
Definition:
(adv.) Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
(prep.) Under; beneath; below.
Example Sentences:
(1) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(2) Degenerating seminiferous tubules and areas of cellular connective tissue are located underneath or within the tunica albuginea.
(3) I feel like there's a weakness and I feel like I'm doing something right to get underneath his skin.
(4) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(5) The small part of the flap that passed underneath the auricular skin or through the auricular cartilage is deepithelialized.
(6) The T-1 nerve root obstructs posterolateral access to the T-1 vertebra, necessitating an inferolateral approach underneath the T-1 nerve root axilla.
(7) Light microscopic and electron microscopic examinations showed that the cysts are lined by flattened to cuboidal epithelial cells which, on their surface, have microvilli of different lengths and underneath a continuous basement membrane.
(8) One described how the young Michael would walk around with a copy of Paris Match underneath his arm, telling people that his goal was to be prime minister.
(9) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(10) I considered it, paced up and down, but thought whatever was underneath might be worse and I would have no money for anything else, so I said I'd keep it.
(11) Ruthenium red-positive anionic sites were distributed in the basal lamina and on thin filaments underneath the basal lamina.
(12) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
(13) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
(14) Alongside aid, you do need an investment in local leadership, the systems that sit underneath them, and the capability of the people that run them,” Thompson said.
(15) This is achieved by inserting the outer layer underneath a dorsally displaced, bony lamella of the outer malleolus.
(16) But those who knew him say that underneath he was a softie.
(17) At both times, the ex-ethanol-treated rats showed significantly impaired between-day habituation of exploratory head-dipping at holes that were empty, but normal between-day habituation of head-dipping at the hole with the same object underneath on all 3 days.
(18) I meet Olsen in London, somewhere east of Dingwalls (a venue she's due to play later) and in the neighbourhood of the Observer 's offices.. She's wearing dark clothes and oversized shades, pale‑faced underneath.
(19) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(20) Fellaini has now taken his tracksuit off, fortunately he has a Man Utd strip underneath,” was the message posted on their official Twitter account moments before the Belgian came on for Herrera.