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1. (n.) foreground
the ground or parts situated in the front; the portion of a scene nearest to the viewer
2. foreground
a prominent position; forefront.
Etymology: (1685–95)
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| Definition of 'foreground' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) foreground
the part of a scene that is near the viewer
2. (verb) foreground
(computer science) a window for an active application
3. (verb) foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) foreground
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
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. foreground
[Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's
stack for immediate processing, and hackers often
use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. “If your presentation is
due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design
document.”Technically, on a timesharing system, a task executing in foreground
is one able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose
background. Nowadays this term is primarily
associated with Unix, but it appears first to have
been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground
task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple processes
simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to
lose.
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Sense: the part of a view or picture nearest to the person looking at it
a landscape, with two horses in the foreground.
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 Afrikaans: voorgrond |
 Arabic: مُقَدِّمَة الصورَه، في طَ |
 Bulgarian: преден план |
 Brazilian: primeiro plano |
 Czech: popředí |
 German: der Vordergrund |
 Danish: forgrund |
 Greek: πρώτο πλάνο |
 Spanish: primer plano |
 Estonian: esiplaan |
 Farsi: پیش نما |
 Finnish: etuala |
 French: premier plan |
 Hebrew: קִדמַת הַתּמוּנָה |
 Hindi: अग्रभमि, महत्वपूर्ण स्थित |
 Croatian: prednji dio (mjesto, pros |
 Hungarian: előtér |
 Indonesian: latar depan |
 Icelandic: forgrunnur |
 Italian: primo piano |
 Japanese: 前景 |
 Korean: 전경(前景) |
 Lithuanian: priešakinis planas |
 Latvian: priekšplāns |
 Malay: latar depan |
 Dutch: voorgrond |
 Norwegian: forgrunn |
 Polish: pierwszy plan |
 Persian: پیش نما |
 Pashto: دصحنې هغه برخه چه لومړى ځ |
 Portuguese: primeiro plano |
 Romanian: prim-plan |
 Russian: передний план |
 Slovak: popredie |
 Slovenian: ospredje |
 Serbian: prednji plan |
 Swedish: förgrund |
 Thai: ทัศนียภาพที่อยู่ใกล้ที่สุ |
 Turkish: ön plân/alan |
 Taiwanese: 前景 |
 Ukrainian: передній план |
 Urdu: منظر کا وہ حصہ جو ناظر سے |
 Vietnamese: cận cảnh |
 Chinese: 前景 |
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