Word Meanings - FOREGROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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• SCENEMAN
  The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• DISTANCE
  1. To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller. 2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• MOSAICAL
  Mosaic . "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SCENESHIFTER
  One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
• RELIEF
  A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. (more info) 1. The
• PAINT
  1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. 2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• MOSAIC
  A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work. 2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic. (more info) mosaico,
• RELIEFFUL
  Giving relief.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• SCENE
  1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. 2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.