Background vs Thems - What's the difference?
background | thems |
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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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.
(Appalachian, colloquial) variant of those .
* 1982 , Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind , page 446:
* 2004 , Louis Daniel Bordsky, Nuts to you! , page 25:
* 2008 , Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite , page 87:
* 2009 , Robert B. Marchand, Caylen's Quest , page 25:
As a noun background
is one's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously.As a verb background
is to put in a position that is not prominent.As a pronoun thems is
variant of those.background
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Noun
(en noun)William E. Conner
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Derived terms
* on background * background fodderthems
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Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- "Catches in my craw, it does — thems as’ll let others do theys work for ’em, then come in to take what the gettin’s got."
- After all, there's just some things in life a guy can't hope to change, even with the powder o' positive thinkin' that comes from livin' long enough and knowin' that thems' what's got it ain't about to give none of it to ' thems what's not, [...]
- “There’s thems' that ''can'' and '''thems''' that ''can’t''; '''thems''' that ''talk'' and '''thems that ''rant .”
- “Thems' are not called boats, ' thems are canoes.”