Foreshorten is a verb used to shorten an object by proportionally contracting it in the direction of depth, creating an illusion of projection or extension in space.
Foreshorten, bir nesneyi derinlik yönünde orantılı olarak kısaltarak uzayda bir projeksiyon veya uzantı yanılsaması elde etmek için kullanılan bir fiildir.
| Word | foreshorten |
|---|---|
| Date | November 23, 2015 |
| Type | verb |
| Syllables | for-SHORT-un |
| Etymology | Foreshorten first appeared in a 1606 treatise on art by the British writer and artist Henry Peacham: "If I should paint ... an horse with his brest and head looking full in my face, I must of necessity foreshorten him behinde." Peacham's foreshorten comes from fore- (meaning "earlier" or "beforehand") plus shorten. The addition of fore- to verbs was a routine practice in Peacham's day, creating such words as fore-conclude, fore-consider, fore-instruct, and fore-repent. Foreshorten, along with words like foresee and foretell, is one of the few fore- combinations to still survive. |
| Examples | "The past is a giant foreshortened with his feet towards us; and sometimes the feet are of clay." — G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917 "A low vantage point provides the opportunity to dramatically foreshorten the dimensions of the building, drawing the eye upward to the dome." — Mary McNaughton, The Little Book of Drawing, 2007 |
| Definition | 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 |
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