Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Combat and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Combat" instead a noun "Background".
Combat
Combat noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.
Background and combat are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Combat".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Between the brain damage and the fact that Daala's background indicates that in the academy she was a brilliant ground combat tactician, perhaps her incompetence in space combat is justified.
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Meat Puppet: "Guises" from the background material are artificially grown, brainless humans used as combat drones.
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Subverted in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation; the background music playing during the battle at the Chandelier is superficially similar to many cases of Ominous Latin Chanting.
Source: Ominous Latin Chanting
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