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Definition of Foreground
1. Verb. Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent. "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
Generic synonyms: Bring Out, Set Off
Antonyms: Background, Play Down
Derivative terms: Highlight, Highlighter, Highlighter, Highlighting, Spotlight
2. Noun. The part of a scene that is near the viewer.
3. Noun. (computer science) a window for an active application.
Generic synonyms: Window
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Definition of Foreground
1. n. On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance,
Definition of Foreground
1. Noun. The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane. ¹
2. Noun. The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) the application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others. ¹
4. Verb. To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreground
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreground
Literary usage of Foreground
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape and Figure Composition by Sadakichi Hartmann (1910)
"Different Combinations of Foreground, Middle Distance, and Distance. — A Hint
from the Old Masters. — Exceptional Cases. — With Sixteen Illustrations. ..."
2. Camera (1907)
"This case may well stand to illustrate the final postulate, namely, an item in
the foreground has less weight than the same in the distance. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"chanical appliances are removed, the foreground is arranged with something of
the landscape- gardener's art. Real grass, shrubs, and the like, are disposed ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1831)
"Several other figures are in the back of the- room; and various household utensils
on the foreground. Ift. 10 in. by 2ft. 3 in. Collection of M. Lamberts, . ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"In the latter the most remarkable is Plate 25, showing a desert, with several
plants of Welwitschia mirabilis in the foreground. ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"... while the tubes containing the solvent and the solutions MM' are shown in the
foreground. The principal improvement in the apparatus is the ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... just above Seatoller, and once caused a tarn between the hamlets of Seatoller
and Seathwaite. ALLUVIAL FLAT IN STONETHWAITE, WITH GORGE IN Foreground. ..."
8. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... IN THE Foreground. (Photograph (>y Mr. \\~. AV/i>on.) the Derwent, entering
at the south-east corner with the over-flow of Derwentwater. ..."
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