Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foreground"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Foreground \Fore"ground`\, n.
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. {Distance}, n., 6.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

foreground
n 1: the part of a scene that is near the viewer
2: (computer science) a window for an active application
v : move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent;
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished
career in linguistics" [syn: {highlight}, {spotlight}, {play
up}] [ant: {background}, {background}]


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