Crossword clues for foreground
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreground \Fore"ground`\, 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, n., 6.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane. 2 The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work. 3 (context computing English) the application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others. vb. To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically)
WordNet
n. the part of a scene that is near the viewer
(computer science) a window for an active application
v. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: highlight, spotlight, play up] [ant: background, background]
Usage examples of "foreground".
In composing the picture, Trumbull had placed Adams at the exact center foreground, as if to leave no doubt about his importance.
The first was engaged, it may be remembered, in the process of brushing up Bacchanalian Nymphs in the foreground of a Classical landscape.
Then he turned to retrace his steps, and found the blank wall blanker and more deserted than ever, while the foreground was void of all trace of Olivia.
Jesus as that of Adam according to the recapitulation theory, here and there expresses himself as if he were speaking of the perfect man, is undeniable: If the acts of Christ are really to be what they seem, the man concerned in them must be placed in the foreground.
I believe he also at this time paid a short visit to Orta, and did three or four figures in the left hand part of the foreground of the Canonisation of St.
In the poignant foreground, Ricky Kraft, doing his brave little John-John Jr.
There were dark pines against a lemon sky, grey peaks reddening and etherealizing, gorges of deep and infinite blue, floods of golden glory pouring through canyons of enormous depth, an atmosphere of absolute purity, an occasional foreground of cottonwood and aspen flaunting in red and gold to intensify the blue gloom of the pines, the trickle and murmur of streams fringed with icicles, the strange sough of gusts moving among the pine tops--sights and sounds not of the lower earth, but of the solitary, beast-haunted, frozen upper altitudes.
Then, as the imagination itself expanded under the stimulus of that measureless range of vision, even those great ranches resolved themselves into mere foreground, mere accessories, irrelevant details.
Temple of the Elder Ones with its sixteen carven sides, its flattened dome, and its lofty pinnacled belfry, overtopping all else, and majestic whatever its foreground.
As a foreground, a bed of tithonia tied together reality and illusion.
A woman and five children clothed in rags formed the foreground, and in the background was Bottarelli, in an old dressing-gown, writing at a table worthy of Philemon and Baucis.
He focused it, as the nearsighted Brady could not, moved it slightly to get the form in the foreground in focus, and grunted.
By blood they were Phoenician and by nationality citizens of the great city port of Gades, which had been founded as a Phoenician colony nearly a thousand years before and still kept its Punic roots and customs very much in the foreground of Gadetanian life.
The maskers surge into the foreground of the scene, and their motions become more and more fantastic.
In the foreground several postillions and ostlers with relays of horses are waiting by the roadside, gazing northward and listening for sounds.