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▪ I. foreground, n.|ˈfɔəgraʊnd|
[f. fore- prefix + ground.]
1. a. That part of a view which is in front and nearest the observer; esp. as represented in a picture.
1695Dryden Art of Paint. 167 White can subsist on the fore-ground of the Picture. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 353 Such as lie nearer the fore-ground you are to imitate according to nature. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 19 The desolate crag—a fit foreground to the still more desolate prospect that the land presented. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 401 A mother in the foreground, seated beside her two dead infants.
b. fig. The most conspicuous or prominent position.
1816Bentham Chrestom. 247 The desirable property,—which on this occasion stands as the principal object, and occupies the fore-ground. 1833Macaulay Ess., Walpole's Lett. to Mann (1854) 264/2 He was content..to keep in the background and to leave the foreground to the author. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets v. 127 The Aeolians occupied the very foreground of Greek literature.
2. The ground in front of an object. rare—1.
1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 134 The high priest..touched with finger dipped in blood, the sacred lid and foreground of the Ark.
3. attrib. foreground music (opp. background music: see background n. 1 e).
1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 362 Several groups of fine foreground Trees with extensive tops were already formed. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 165, I made two fore⁓ground studies in colour. 1961Time 21 July 36/1 When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, ‘I made a killing.’ 1967L. Deighton London Dossier 30 Deafening foreground music is provided by a giant jukebox.
▪ II. ˈforeground, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To place in the foreground. Hence ˈforegrounding vbl. n.; spec. in Linguistics [rendering Czech aktualisace modernization (Havránek and Weingart Spisovná čeština a jazyková kultura (1932))], the use of unorthodox or unexpected devices in language.
1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xvi. 153 We could do a prodigious trade [in portrait-painting] with the women if we could foreground the things they like, but they don't give a damn for artillery. 1959R. Quirk in Quirk & Smith Teaching of English i. 45 The Prague School notion of what has been translated as ‘foregrounding’..is defined by Mukařovský as ‘the aesthetically intentional distortion of the linguistic components’ in relation to the normal standard language on the one hand and to ‘the traditional aesthetic canon’ on the other. 1962S. R. Levin Ling. Struct. Poetry ii. 17 Foregrounded linguistic elements..call attention to themselves. 1964P. L. Garvin Prague School Reader p. viii, Automatization refers to the stimulus normally expected in a social situation; foregrounding—in Czech aktualisace—on the other hand refers to a stimulus not culturally expected in a social situation and hence capable of provoking special attention. |