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foreground

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1. foreground - Noun

2. foreground - Verb

Meaning

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.

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The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics Source: Internet

According to Evina, once the user launched the contentious app on their smartphone, the malicious app detected what app a user recently opened and had in the phone's foreground. Source: Internet

According to the director, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was initially going to be in the foreground, but would recede gradually as viewers got to know the other townsfolk and the problems they were having. Source: Internet

According to Nigel Allan, Hindu Kush meant both "mountains of India" and "sparkling snows of India", as he notes, from a Central Asian perspective. citation History Landscape of Afghanistan with a T-62 in the foreground. Source: Internet

A color range in the foreground footage is made transparent, allowing separately filmed background footage or a static image to be inserted into the scene. Source: Internet

Along the horizon, the setting sun silhouettes the farm with its abundant stacks of grain, in contrast to the large shadowy figures in the foreground. Source: Internet

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