Definition of Foregrounds

1. Noun. (plural of foreground) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of foreground) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foregrounds

1. foreground [v] - See also: foreground

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foregrounds

foreglimpse
forego
foregoer
foregoers
foregoes
foregoing
foregoing(a)
foregone
foregone conclusion
foregone conclusions
foreground
foreground processing
foregroundable
foregrounded
foregrounding
foregrounds (current term)
foreguard
foreguess
foreguessed
foreguesses
foreguessing
foregut
foregut cysts
foreguts
forehalsen
forehand
forehand(a)
forehand drive
forehand shot
forehand stroke

Literary usage of Foregrounds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard, ( (1917)
"... foregrounds, Backgrounds, and Planes of Distance If a landscape composition is to tell as one unified thing it must be segregated from the things on ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard (1917)
"... foregrounds, backgrounds, and planes of distance — OBJECTS IN LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION ACCORDING TO THEIR DESIGN VALUE — Temporary elements. ..."

3. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"... Nature is also continually working up new foregrounds to her landscapes, though it is a much easier business to deform than to restore. ..."

4. Social service and the art of healing by Richard Clarke Cabot (1909)
"SOCIAL SERVICE AND THE ART OF HEALING CHAPTER I BACKGROUNDS AND foregrounds IN MEDICAL WORK THERE are two kinds of blindness from which I have suffered in ..."

5. Sunlight and Shadow: A Book for Photographers, Amateur and Professional by Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (1897)
"... Chapter IV foregrounds N THK PHOTOGRAPHIC TI.MKS for July, 1895, Mr- HP Robinson, the veteran English artist, photographer, and writer, ..."

6. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... and thus examined and known; but the foregrounds of Turner are so united in all their parts that the eye cannot take them by divisions, ..."

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