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.
- 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.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane
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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.