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Foreshorten definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORESHORT'EN, v.t. In painting; to shorten figures for the sake of showing those behind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate]
2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1606 1. to shorten by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or extension in space is obtained 2. to make more compact ; abridge, shorten

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. show or portray (an object) with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foreshorten Fore*short"en, v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(foreshortens, foreshortening, foreshortened) To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her. VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dock, elide, epitomize, mow, nip, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate