'Foreground' definitions:
Definition of 'foreground'
(from WordNet)
noun
The part of a scene that is near the viewer
noun
(computer science) a window for an active application
verb
Definition of 'Foreground'
From: GCIDE
- Foreground \Fore"ground`\, 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foreground'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anteriority,
- approach,
- approximation,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- closeness,
- confines,
- convergence,
- display,
- environs,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fore,
- forefront,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- head,
- heading,
- immediacy,
- immediate foreground,
- lap,
- nearness,
- neighborhood,
- nighness,
- obverse,
- precinct,
- preface,
- prefix,
- priority,
- propinquity,
- proscenium,
- proximity,
- purlieus,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- window dressing