Background and Ground

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Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.

Usage example: they got married on a mountain top with the sunset as background

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Ground is a synonym for background. In some cases you can use "Ground" instead a noun "Background". popular alternative

Ground noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.

Usage example: take her picture against a blue ground in order to bring out her blue eyes

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Background is a synonym for ground. You can use "Background" instead a noun "Ground". popular alternative

similar	similar background	similar ground
common	common background	common ground
solid	solid background	solid ground
original	original background	original ground
Other adjectives: rough, actual, entire, real, little, distant, main, new, shared.

Complete with the characters literally standing on nothing yet still attatched to the ground and the background detail showing many planets, cosmos, and stars compared to the rest of the space scenes in the game, which just show some stars.

Source: Video Game / Xenosaga
You can see similar floating islands above the ground in the background of The First Dream: Prologue and above the ocean in The Third Dream: Chapter 3.

Source: Video Game / They Bleed Pixels
This can be rather dizzying if you watch the middle ground, where the ground you fight on blends into the fixed background.

Source: Video Game / Soul Series

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