foreground

Examples

• All

• Cold stone floor, and in the foreground, a dark pool of blood.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Each work had a large item in the foreground, and smaller items leading back to a horizon line.

  Academic text (2011)

• You have to find the foreground, the little things.

  JFK (1991)

• Here, those French soldiers you see walking through the foreground there.

  Atonement (2007)

• I need something in the foreground to give it some scale!

  Jaws (1975)

• We frame up Lucky holding his aunt in the foreground, with the two women in the background.

  Fiction book (1993)

• There's a little dog in the foreground.

  Million Dollar Arm (2014)

• A small stream was in the foreground with a beautiful cascade of water.

  Fiction book (1994)

• And then it turns out that it was just the hand of the diver in the foreground holding up a sea urchin.

• I looked at the chipped pillar in the foreground and at the rubble of a wall.

  Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

F

front

vsforeground

∞ 1.0

The part of something that faces forward toward a person or entrance

is specifically the nearest part of a scene to the viewer

F

forefront

vsforeground

9 4.4

The position closest to someone watching at the start of a group

is about the nearest scene area rather than a general prominent position

Antonyms

B

background

268 2.1

The area behind the main subject in a picture, on a stage, or on a screen

Compounds

F

foreground processing

• Specialized

5.1

Computer tasks that run first and interact directly with the user

How Close

foreground

25 3.3

front

∞ 1.0

middle ground

41 4.2

background

268 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology