Back four
noun
(soccer) the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
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- Background music
music, often recorded, intended to provide a soothing background, usually played over loudspeaker systems in public places, as railway stations or restaurants. music composed specifically to accompany and heighten the mood of a visual production, as a movie. contemporary examples yorke and g-drich know how to make all this fiddling about sound pretty good, even […]
- Back ground
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the projection from the rear of previously photographed material on a translucent screen, used as background for a television or motion-picture shot.