Dictionary Entry
foreground
foreground is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
(computer science) a window for an active application
- 3noun
the part of a scene that is near the viewer
- 4verb
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
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