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Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
Alfonso Cuaron

Meaning of "foreground" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOREGROUND

foreground  [ˈfɔːˌɡraʊnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOREGROUND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foreground is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb foreground in English.

WHAT DOES FOREGROUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of foreground in the English dictionary

The first definition of foreground in the dictionary is the part of a scene situated towards the front or nearest to the viewer. Other definition of foreground is the area of space in a perspective picture, depicted as nearest the viewer. Foreground is also a conspicuous or active position.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FOREGROUND

PRESENT

Present
I foreground
you foreground
he/she/it foregrounds
we foreground
you foreground
they foreground
Present continuous
I am foregrounding
you are foregrounding
he/she/it is foregrounding
we are foregrounding
you are foregrounding
they are foregrounding
Present perfect
I have foregrounded
you have foregrounded
he/she/it has foregrounded
we have foregrounded
you have foregrounded
they have foregrounded
Present perfect continuous
I have been foregrounding
you have been foregrounding
he/she/it has been foregrounding
we have been foregrounding
you have been foregrounding
they have been foregrounding
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I foregrounded
you foregrounded
he/she/it foregrounded
we foregrounded
you foregrounded
they foregrounded
Past continuous
I was foregrounding
you were foregrounding
he/she/it was foregrounding
we were foregrounding
you were foregrounding
they were foregrounding
Past perfect
I had foregrounded
you had foregrounded
he/she/it had foregrounded
we had foregrounded
you had foregrounded
they had foregrounded
Past perfect continuous
I had been foregrounding
you had been foregrounding
he/she/it had been foregrounding
we had been foregrounding
you had been foregrounding
they had been foregrounding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will foreground
you will foreground
he/she/it will foreground
we will foreground
you will foreground
they will foreground
Future continuous
I will be foregrounding
you will be foregrounding
he/she/it will be foregrounding
we will be foregrounding
you will be foregrounding
they will be foregrounding
Future perfect
I will have foregrounded
you will have foregrounded
he/she/it will have foregrounded
we will have foregrounded
you will have foregrounded
they will have foregrounded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been foregrounding
you will have been foregrounding
he/she/it will have been foregrounding
we will have been foregrounding
you will have been foregrounding
they will have been foregrounding
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would foreground
you would foreground
he/she/it would foreground
we would foreground
you would foreground
they would foreground
Conditional continuous
I would be foregrounding
you would be foregrounding
he/she/it would be foregrounding
we would be foregrounding
you would be foregrounding
they would be foregrounding
Conditional perfect
I would have foreground
you would have foreground
he/she/it would have foreground
we would have foreground
you would have foreground
they would have foreground
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been foregrounding
you would have been foregrounding
he/she/it would have been foregrounding
we would have been foregrounding
you would have been foregrounding
they would have been foregrounding
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you foreground
we let´s foreground
you foreground
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to foreground
Past participle
foregrounded
Present Participle
foregrounding
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOREGROUND


above-ground
əˌbʌvˈɡraʊnd
aground
əˈɡraʊnd
air-to-ground
ˈɛətəˌɡraʊnd
around
əˈraʊnd
background
ˈbækˌɡraʊnd
battleground
ˈbætəlɡraʊnd
belowground
bɪˈləʊˌɡraʊnd
campground
ˈkæmpɡraʊnd
fairground
ˈfɛəˌɡraʊnd
ground
ɡraʊnd
ground-to-ground
ˌɡraʊndtəˈɡraʊnd
inground
ɪnˈɡraʊnd
overground
ˈəʊvəˌɡraʊnd
playground
ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd
round
raʊnd
showground
ˈʃəʊˌɡraʊnd
stoneground
ˈstəʊnˌɡraʊnd
surround
səˈraʊnd
underground
ˈʌndəˌɡraʊnd
unground
ʌnˈɡraʊnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOREGROUND

forefoot
forefront
foregather
foregleam
forego
foregoer
foregoing
foregone
foregone conclusion
foregoneness
foreground processing
foregut
forehand
forehand drive
forehand volley
forehanded
forehandedly
forehandedness
forehead
forehent

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOREGROUND

above ground
all-around
all-round
all year round
all-year-round
bound
break new ground
fall to the ground
get around
get off the ground
go around
go round
in the round
into the ground
shop around
the high ground
the underground
thin on the ground
to the ground
workaround
year-round

Synonyms and antonyms of foreground in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOREGROUND»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «foreground» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of foreground

Translation of «foreground» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOREGROUND

Find out the translation of foreground to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foreground from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foreground» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

前景
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

primer plano
570 millions of speakers

English

foreground
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अग्रभूमि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أَمَاميّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

авансцена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

primeiro plano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুরোভূমি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

premier plan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Latar depan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vordergrund
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前景
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전경
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Foreground
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cận cảnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்புறமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अग्रभूमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ön plan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

in primo piano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pierwszy plan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

передній план
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prim-plan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσκήνιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorgrond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förgrund
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forgrunn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foreground

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREGROUND»

The term «foreground» is very widely used and occupies the 20.848 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREGROUND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «foreground» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «foreground» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foreground

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10 QUOTES WITH «FOREGROUND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foreground.
1
Anthony Browne
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
2
Alfonso Cuaron
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
3
H. R. Giger
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
4
Donella Meadows
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
5
Keanu Reeves
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
6
Geoffrey Rush
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
7
Hjalmar Schacht
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
8
Ruth J. Simmons
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
9
Constantin Stanislavski
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
10
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOREGROUND»

Discover the use of foreground in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foreground and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Full Foreground
These acts magnify one another when unified. Each poem within the collection positions itself within the avant-garde, in which the artful use of language aims to dazzle, surprise, and enliven.
Roberto Tejada, 2012
2
Community Education and Crime Prevention: Confronting ...
How one inner-city neighborhood is fighting crime through a community education (comprehensive) approach.
Carolyn Siemens Ward, 2008
3
Notes on the Tactical Use of Foreground Illumination
examine the roads and communications included in the zone to be illuminated; then he will note on a perspective sketch the outline forms of the objects, the distances, sighting points, crossings of communications, ridges, defiles, bridges, fords, ...
‎1917
4
American Tradition and Innovation with Contemporary Import ...
In keeping with the preceding book on the American Founders, this volume deals mostly with U.S. Presidents and their ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries, from Lincoln (along with his contemporaries Davis and Stevens), Theodore Roosevelt, ...
A. London Fell, 2006
5
Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing. Illustrated by ...
George BARNARD (Artist.) Having already found by the success which has attended a larger work on trees, that a previous careful study of the different parts before the whole object is attempted, is of great use to the pupil, the same plan then ...
George BARNARD (Artist.), 1853
6
UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and ...
Move processes in and out of the foreground. A shell that supports job control must keep track of all foreground and background process groups in its session. When the terminal generates a sigstop interrupt (usually in response to Ctrl-Z), the ...
Kay A. Robbins, Steven Robbins, 2003
7
Globalization of Compassion: Women in the Foreground of ...
In a world oriented toward the ascendance of peaceful and successful conflict resolution,this news would be dominating the foreground of our public discourse. It would make “2 inch-above-the-fold headlines.” However, across our existing ...
Elissa J. Tivona, 2008
8
Real-Time Systems: Theory and Practice
The simplest of these is the foreground-background scheduler, which we discuss next. In Section 2.7 we discuss EDF and in Section 2.8 we discuss RMA. Foreground-Background Scheduler: A foreground-background scheduler is possibly ...
Rajib Mall, 2009
9
Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives
The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause.
Jean-Marc Heimerdinger, 1999
10
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 - Illustrated
UNIT Photoshop ,EJemte 7 QUIGR TIP To set the background color, click the Set background colorTool QUIGII TIP You can also set foreground and background colors using the Eyedropper Tool in the toolbox or the Color Swatches palette, ...
Barbara Waxer, Lisa Tannenbaum, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOREGROUND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foreground is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Go Set A Watchman' reveals Atticus Finch as a racist: 'Do you want …
This picture provided by Universal Studios Home Entertainment shows actors Gregory Peck, foreground left, and Brock Peters, foreground right, ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
The Charleston Gazette | Rain, winds bring flooding, power outages …
Zac Tanner (foreground) took a cellphone picture of the RV earlier in the morning, when it was sitting in water up to its front wheel wells. «Charleston Gazette, Jul 15»
3
Andrew Fisher clocks PB for second in 100m - Sport …
In this April 5, 2014 file photo Andrew Fisher (foreground) of UTech races to the finish line well ahead of rivals in the men's 100m final in 10.11 ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
4
Music With Meaning That Won't Steal The Show | WRTI
We'll play some of the tunes they've produced for use in 30 countries, and talk about a world of music that isn't quite foreground but not quite ... «WRTI, Jul 15»
5
Hawaii limits access to Mauna Kea amid telescope protests - 7News …
(AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher). Protest leader Kahookahi Kanuha, foreground, testifies before a Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting in Honolulu ... «WHDH-TV, Jul 15»
6
Great Reads: Hippie drug dealers and Radiohead - LA Times
Left foreground, land cleared by burning. Right, a pasture for cattle. (Brazil Photos / LightRocket). The soundtrack: "The Trees," by Pulp. One of ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
7
Brandonville man will face felony rape charges - News - Standard …
... Shenandoah, on Thursday morning by East Union Township Police Chief Thomas Rentscler, foreground. A Brandonville man charged with ... «Standard Speaker, Jul 15»
8
Bali flights resume after ash cloud closed airport - Channel NewsAsia
International passengers (foreground) wait with their luggage as others (background) crowd the check-in counters at Ngurah Rai International ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
9
Pence slam among 22 hits for Giants in 15-2 win - San Antonio …
San Francisco Giants' Joe Panik, center, rounds the bases between Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jeanmar Gomez, foreground, and shortstop ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
10
Dodgers rally with 3 runs in 7th to beat Brewers 3-2 - WOWK 13 …
Los Angeles Dodgers' Joc Pederson runs to first on a single off Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jimmy Nelson, foreground, during the sixth inning of a ... «WOWK, Jul 15»

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