Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
background . - adjective Moved to the
background - adjective computing (of a task) Made non-
interactive
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Examples
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I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime.
Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses Victor Schwartz 2010
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I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime.
Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses Victor Schwartz 2010
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I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime.
Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses Victor Schwartz 2010
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I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime.
Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses Victor Schwartz 2010
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I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime.
Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses Victor Schwartz 2010
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To you, the user, this appears as a list of running applications, both "backgrounded" and
PCWorld 2010
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There they stand, high lonesome's sweetest harmonizers, singing their hearts out in white suits and pink shirts, backgrounded by flames and the grinning scarlet figure, half-comical, half-terrifying, of a 16-foot-tall plywood Satan.
In and Out of Harmony Alec Solomita 2012
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And when the essentialist theories are foregrounded, then the Really Real Issues ™ – the social, legal, cultural and other contexts of being a transsexual person in an overwhelmingly cissexual world – are backgrounded.
Kim Petras 2009
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Sometimes it's all you can think about and everyone's quiet and burdened, and other days it's so backgrounded that you can almost convince yourself that this is all something you're doing just because it seems fun.
It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011
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I then called my SkypeIn number from my home land line, and the backgrounded Skype sprung to the foreground and I could answer the call.
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