רקע

Etymology
From the root.

Verb

 * 1) to stomp

Noun

 * 1)  A background: the background of a picture (or the like).
 * 2)  A background, an ambient environment.
 * 3) * 2005, אסף גברון (translator), Audrey Niffenegger (English author), “אשתו של הנוסע בזמן” (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir (publishers), ISBN 625-1200057, page 398
 * "he"
 * 1) * 2005, אסף גברון (translator), Audrey Niffenegger (English author), “אשתו של הנוסע בזמן” (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir (publishers), ISBN 625-1200057, page 398
 * "he"

- כשקנדריק מפסיק לדבר, פתאום נשמעים רעשי הרקע של הבניין.


 * 1)  A background: a person's heritage, upbringing, and so on.
 * 2)  A basis: an underlying situation or cause.
 * 3) * 2011 March 29, דן אבן (Dan Even), “85% מהתלונות לרופא על עייפות אינן על רקע גופני” (85% meihat'lunót l'rofé al ayefút einán al réka gufaní, “85% of medical complaints of tiredness do not have a physical basis”), in Haaretz Online.
 * 4)  A background, a desktop background.
 * 1)  A background, a desktop background.

Usage notes

 * As may be seen in the examples above, the noun very often functions either as an attributive modifier, or as the object of the preposition . In this respect it is similar to English.
 * Note that typically has a much stronger implication of causation than an English-speaker might expect.