foreground
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From fore- + ground . Compare Dutch voorgrond ("foreground"), German Vordergrund ("foreground"), Danish forgrund ("foreground"), Swedish förgrund ("foreground"), Norwegian forgrunn ("foreground"), Icelandic forgrunni ("foreground").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]foreground (plural foregrounds )
- The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
- 2006, Mark Chalkley, Hampden-Woodberry:
- Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called "ghetto palm," now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.
- The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
- (computing , often attributive ) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]the elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane
- Bulgarian: пре́ден план m (préden plan)
- Chinese:
- Czech: popředí (cs) n
- Dutch: voorgrond (nl) m
- Finnish: etuala , edusta (fi)
- French: premier plan (fr) m, avant-plan (fr) m
- German: Vordergrund (de) m
- Greek: προσκήνιο (el) n (proskínio)
- Hungarian: előtér (hu)
- Italian: primo piano m
- Japanese: 前景 (ja) (ぜんけい, zenkei)
- Korean: 전경(前景) (ko) (jeon'gyeong)
- Portuguese: primeiro plano m
- Romanian: prim plan (ro) n
- Russian: пере́дний пла́н m (perédnij plán)
- Spanish: primer plano m
- Swedish: förgrund (sv) c
- Ukrainian: пере́дній пла́н m (perédnij plán)
- Walloon: divant-plan (wa) m
Verb
[edit ]foreground (third-person singular simple present foregrounds , present participle foregrounding , simple past and past participle foregrounded )
- To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
- Synonym: highlight
- 2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, "Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman", in AV Club[1] , archived from the original on 21 August 2020:
- Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.
- 2021 July 29, Mike Hale, "Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds", in The New York Times [2] :
- Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with "Beaches"-level platitudes and sentimentality.