1. foreground

noun. ['ˈfɔrˌgraʊnd'] the part of a scene that is near the viewer.

Words that Rhyme with Foreground

• background
• battleground
• campground
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• electrosound
• fairground
• foxhound
• greyhound
• hidebound
• homebound
• horehound
• merry-go-round
• outbound
• playground
• runaround
• snowbound
• southbound
• spellbound

Example sentences of the word foreground

1. Noun, singular or mass
Click on the foreground color box in the Tool bar.

Quotes containing the word foreground

1. Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it."Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

2. foreground

verb. ['ˈfɔrˌgraʊnd'] move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent.

3. foreground

noun. ['ˈfɔrˌgraʊnd'] (computer science) a window for an active application.