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foreshorten::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
| Type of | decrease, minify, lessen |
| Has types | concentrate, condense, digest, shorten, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, bowdlerise |
| Verb group | edit, cut, edit out |
foreshorten::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | shorten |
Examples of foreshorten
foreshorten
Rather than expand our sense of possibilities, they foreshorten them.
From the nytimes.com
Not that they feel that the only solution to the situation they find themselves in is to foreshorten their life and that we don't frame a law which drives us down that road.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
- Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. ...
- To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually
- (foreshortening) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn
- (foreshortening) The representation of forms on a two-dimensional surface by presenting the length in such a way that the long axis appears to project toward or recede away from the viewer.
- (Foreshortening) To shorten an object to make it look as if it extends backwards into space
- (Foreshortening) A loss of resolution caused by an oblique (shallow) viewing angle that results in a distortion near the edge of the picture on any type of METSAT imagery.
- (Foreshortening) Alteration of scale of an image to suggest perspective.
