foreground
foregrounds
When you're watching a movie, you can describe what's happening up close to the camera as being in the foreground.
The foreground is the opposite of the background, which is the part of a photograph, painting, or scene that's farthest away from you. Some photographers tend to focus sharply on the foreground while letting the rest of the picture go blurry. The noun foreground was first used specifically for talking about painting, and it came from fore, "before" or "in front," and ground, or "foundation."
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the part of a scene that is near the viewer
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(computer science) a window for an active application
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type of:
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window
(computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen
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window
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move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
Vocabulary lists containing foreground
Sixteen-year old Sarah is thrown into an existential crisis as she struggles to regain her artistic abilities while struggling with her parents' toxic relationship in the urban ruins of Philadelphia.
This novel, written in the form of a journal, details the life of a New England girl in the 1830s.
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