foreground
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈfɔrɡraʊnd/
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primer plano
- In the painting, the flowers in the foreground draw the viewer's eye immediately.
- foreground and background
- occupy the foreground
- immediate foreground
You try to stoke this in the background and in the foreground, what do you do?
- You try to stoke this in the background and in the foreground, what do you do?
Examples
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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.
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Here, those French soldiers you see walking through the foreground there.
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I need something in the foreground to give it some scale!
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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.
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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.
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I looked at the chipped pillar in the foreground and at the rubble of a wall.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
The part of something that faces forward toward a person or entrance
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4.4
The position closest to someone watching at the start of a group
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Computer tasks that run first and interact directly with the user
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreground comes from fore- meaning 'front' and ground meaning 'land' or 'base'. So the foreground is the 'front' part of a picture, the area closest to the viewer.