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• n  the part of a scene that is near the viewer
• n  (computer science) a window for an active application
• v  move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

• In the first picture that's an untitled Cy Twombly sculpture in the foreground.
• If Baywatch would just stick to the slow-motion running and random bikini contests and bring the thonged extras into the foreground, guys wouldn't need other television shows.
• For example, when something in the foreground comes through clearly in 3D, there's a chance that items in the background will be out of alignment.

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News & Articles

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• PHOTO: Father's Day fishing
  Philip Grimes of Annville nets the trout son Chase, foreground, just hooked Sunday during a Father's Day outing at Limestone Springs Fishing Preserve, Richland. On the other side of Dad is son Tanner.
  June 17, 2013 - Lebanon Daily News
• Gas and oil wells in the Moneta Divide field
  The Moneta Divide project would create both gas and oil wells, and Encana is designing its completed well sites for low surface impact. This is one of the standard producing gas wells (foreground), and a pump jack for a standard oil well on another site behind.
  June 17, 2013 - Casper Journal
• Do you know where this is?
  The open space in the foreground was under construction as a municipal parking lot when this Worcester neighborhood photo was taken in July 1964.
  June 16, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Quotes

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• Ralf Schumacher in AutoCorse.it
  I always had a certain loyalty vis-a-vis my partners, but the Toyota management did not really exist for the media,Schumacher said. "The drivers stood in the foreground at Toyota. We always had to explain, and therein lay the main...
• Cher in Hollyscoop
  Cher told USA Today, "Getting the whole thing in book form, in pictures, has taken months. Our set moves down from the ceiling, in from the sides, up from the floor. We have screens in the foreground, the center and the back. We can change a city...