backgrounding

Examples

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• Boston seems to have hit their mark on this pretty well, with their targeted backgrounding to selected press types, taking advantage of the fact that this is a group always eager for a new storyline.

  Blog text (6)

• Currently, my phone is jailbroken, and backgrounding runs perfectly fine.

  Blog text (14)

• Firmware 4.0 brings backgrounding to the iPhone 3GS, but no backgrounding for the 3G... why?

  Blog text (14)

• Matters of parliamentary politics were felt by them to deserve backgrounding in relation to what belonged to the serious subject matter implied by the compendious period sense of the word literature.

  Academic text (1996)

• The evolution from realistic to modernist fiction can be viewed as a shrinking and backgrounding of the actual core of the textual universe.

  Academic text (1995)

• Vary the gooey backgrounding through dialogue, Fink says, which is the fecund fruit, the veritas vitae, moving a tale.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Then, nodding, already moving, he said, "How about showing me your operation?" Tully explained the cycle of backgrounding, summer pasture, and commercial feedlot, the average gain per day in each phase, but McCreedy didn't seem to be listening.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Ecofeminists have used the metaphor "woman=nature" as both a symbol of women's victimization and backgrounding under male domination and as a symbol of inherent female sensibilities about the interconnected web of life.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Because of the present tense, the "you" narrative loses a good deal of its narratorial and allocutive qualities, backgrounding, that is, both the narrator's function of narration (which usually consists of a telling after the fact) and the effect of address or allocution inherent in the use of you.

  Academic text (1994)

• The new software update improved the efficiency of backgrounding, allowing users to run multiple applications simultaneously without lag.

Synonyms

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background processing

vsbackgrounding

• Specialized

4.1

Tasks the computer does while you use other programs

yields processor to higher priority tasks when they need it

How Noticeable

modal

• Specialized

1 7.5

alert

297 2.8

toasting

• Specialized

5.6

to mute

21 3.1

backgrounding

• Specialized

1 7.6

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