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forego |
foregoer |
foregoing |
foregone |
foregone conclusion |
foreground
| foreground processing
| foregrounding
| foreguess
| foregut
| forehand
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foreground
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foreground has 2 senses
- foreground(n = noun.cognition) Array - the part of a scene that is near the viewer; Array is a kind of aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista
- foreground(n = noun.artifact) Array - (computer science) a window for an active application; Array is a part of crt screen, screen
Derived form verb foreground1
is a kind of window
Verb foreground has 1 sense
- foreground(v = verb.change) highlight, play up, spotlight - move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" is one way to bring out, set off
Antonym: background
Derived form noun foreground1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
foreground, 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foreground, n.
1 the part of a view, esp. in a picture, that is nearest the observer.
2 the most conspicuous position.
1 the part of a view, esp. in a picture, that is nearest the observer.
2 the most conspicuous position.
Etymology
Du. voorgrond (as FORE-, GROUND(1))
THESAURUS
foreground
anteriority, approach, approximation, bold front, brave face, brave front, closeness, confines, convergence, display, environs, facade, face, facet, facia, fore, forefront, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, head, heading, immediacy, immediate foreground, lap, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, obverse, precinct, preface, prefix, priority, propinquity, proscenium, proximity, purlieus, vicinage, vicinity, window dressingROGET THESAURUS
foreground
Front
N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.
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