Sekirov Dictionary

foreground

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
- 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. — 2006
[before a noun] The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.

verb1

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To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
- Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death. — 2019

forms

foregrounded · foregrounding · foregrounds

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