Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foreshorten"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t.
1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended
in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to
shorten by drawing in perspective.
2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened
in the tract of time. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
foreshorten
v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
manuscript must be shortened" [syn: {abridge}, {abbreviate},
{shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}]
2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of
depth
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