Foreground
['fɔːgraʊnd] or ['fɔrɡraʊnd]
Definition
(noun.) (computer science) a window for an active application.
(noun.) the part of a scene that is near the viewer.
(verb.) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; 'The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics'.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Leila
Definition
n. the part of a picture nearest the observer's eye as opposed to the background or distance.
Checked by Clive
Examples
- Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,--a colossal head, inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His broad, grizzled head, with its shining patch of baldness, was in the immediate foreground of our vision. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The American Falls may be seen in the foreground rushing past to make their plunge of 165 feet to the rocks below. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Rebekah