Background and Type

Background

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

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Type and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Type" instead a noun "Background".

Type noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Background and type are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Type".

Nearby Words: typical, typed

exact	exact background	exact type
similar	similar background	similar type
common	common background	common type
specific	specific background	specific type
Other adjectives: right, solid, original, single, actual, entire, real, main, new, general, possible, unusual, random, different.

However, any user with an HDTV (and/or some varieties of analog-to-digital TV converter boxes) is able to change color, font type and background to meet their own needs, so the viewer can watch a program with all dark red captions in Comic Sans with a white background and deep text shadowing.

Source: Closed Captioning
Every Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero character has a unique face shape and body type, even irrelevant background characters.

Source: Cast of Snowflakes
Some of the random background character men in Hanna-Barbera have moustaches of this type.

Source: Good Hair, Evil Hair

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