foreground
noun
Origin of foreground
Related Words for foreground
limelight, vanguard, fore, top, head, face, facade, lead, focus, spearhead, front, beginning, center, foreground, forepart, anterior, frontage, van, frontal, browExamples from the Web for foreground
Contemporary Examples of foreground
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.
With the Fireman of Brooklyn’s Company 224 as They Observe the FallenMaurice Emerson Decaul
September 12, 2013
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.
Historical Examples of foreground
But this was not so startling as what it showed in the foreground.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
And the foreground—if the Little Doctor could get that, now, she would be doing something!
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
For a long time Linda sat with poised pencil, studying her foreground.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
He can give the effect of light and shade, brightness, foreground and background.
Albert DurerT. Sturge Moore
But the exquisite drawing of the foreground is especially worthy of notice.
Modern Painters Volume I (of V)John Ruskin