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Webster 1913 Edition
Foreground
Fore′groundˊ
,Noun.
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. , 6.
Distance
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foreground
FO'REGROUND
,Noun.
Definition 2024
foreground
foreground
English
Noun
foreground (plural foregrounds)
- The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
- The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
- (computing) the application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
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Translations
The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane
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Verb
foreground (third-person singular simple present foregrounds, present participle foregrounding, simple past and past participle foregrounded)
- To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically)