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foreground
[ fawr-ground ]
noun
- the ground or parts situated, or represented as situated, in the front; the portion of a scene or picture nearest to the viewer ( background ).
- a prominent or important position; forefront.
verb (used with object)
- to put in the foreground:
The fact that the central character is Italian is not foregrounded.
foreground
/ ˈfɔːˌɡraʊnd /
noun
- the part of a scene situated towards the front or nearest to the viewer
- the area of space in a perspective picture, depicted as nearest the viewer
- a conspicuous or active position
verb
- tr to emphasize (an issue, idea, or word)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of foreground1
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Example Sentences
Dan worked hard and made a good picture: mountains, timber, blue sky…and in the foreground a blond girl and a unicorn.
Ladder 118 looks small on the Brooklyn Bridge; in the foreground both towers billow soot.
So of course, we start swimming toward it because I wanted the underwater camera guy to shoot me in the foreground of this shark.
It never was until I started performing live myself that I had to be in the foreground.
Foreground figures in “Street” are wildly out of focus, which is normally a feature that we only see in still photographs.
Nothing will be easier then to throw the Poles into the shade of the picture, or to occupy the foreground with a brilliant review.
But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.
In the foreground was a large house of two stories and no architecture whatever, although the roof was mercifully flat.
The scene is very amusing, and most of the interest centres in the foreground, where a coach is seen, about to start.
Sylvan scenes, with a dash of human savagery in the foreground, form the best relief for a too-extended assimilation of books.
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