Stereotype vs Background - What's the difference?
stereotype | background |
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
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.
As verbs the difference between stereotype and background
is that stereotype is while background is to put in a position that is not prominent.As a noun background is
one's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously.stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic * stereotypical ----background
English
Noun
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