foreground

foreground has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. (computer science) a window for an active application
• n.. the part of a scene that is near the viewer
• v.. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"