Noun

(en noun)

One's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously.

A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.

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Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.

A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).

(computing) The image or color, over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).

(computing) Activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.

Noun

(en noun)

(literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

(figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

(figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.

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These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

(literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.