Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: foreground
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹɡɹ,aʊnd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foreground
    Meaning: the part of a scene that is near the viewer
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foreground, highlight, spotlight, play_up
    Meaning: move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
Usage examples
  • And in the foreground Lucille's face.
  • Be sure you come again soon, and put in a little more work on the foreground."
  • In the latter, going to the theatre and getting the tickets were shoved into the foreground.
  • The horse itself, in the foreground of the design, stood motionless and statue-like--while farther back, its discomfited rider perished by the dagger of a Metzengerstein.
  • To the westward the landscape is made up of exceedingly strong, gray, glaciated domes and ridge waves, most of them comparatively low, but the largest high enough to be called mountains; separated by canyons and darkened with lines and fields of forest, Cathedral Peak and Mount Hoffman in the distance; small lakes and innumerable meadows in the foreground.