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Webster 1913 Edition
Foreshorten
Fore-short′en
,Verb.
T.
1.
(Fine Art)
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened
in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foreshorten
FORESHORT'EN
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
foreshorten
foreshorten
English
Verb
foreshorten (third-person singular simple present foreshortens, present participle foreshortening, simple past and past participle foreshortened)
- To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
Etymology 2
Alteration of for- + shorten (“to shorten up”).
Alternative forms
Verb
foreshorten (third-person singular simple present foreshortens, present participle foreshortening, simple past and past participle foreshortened)