disturbance vs background

background vs disturbance

disturbance and background both are nouns.

disturbance is not a verb while background is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disturbance	Yes	No	No	No
background	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, background is a hyponym of disturbance; that is, background is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than disturbance:

disturbance: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
background: extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

Other hyponyms of disturbance include clutter, background signal, crosstalk, XT, fadeout, jitter, atmospheric static, atmospherics, static, white noise.

disturbance (noun)	background (noun)
the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion	scenery hung at back of stage
a noisy fight	(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption	a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication	the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
a disorderly outburst or tumult	information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness	extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
an unhappy and worried mental state	relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
	the state of the environment in which a situation exists

disturbance (verb)	background (verb)
	understate the importance or quality of

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