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"4": "foreground"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förgrund (“foreground”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "forgrunn",
"3": "",
"4": "foreground"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "forgrunni",
"3": "",
"4": "foreground"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "foregrounds",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "foregrounding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "foregrounded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "foregrounded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "foreground (third-person singular simple present foregrounds, present participle foregrounding, simple past and past participle foregrounded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club",
"text": "Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "highlight#Verb"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-foreground.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-us-foreground.ogg/En-us-foreground.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-us-foreground.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically)",
"word": "előtérbe helyez/állít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically)",
"word": "kiemel"
}
],
"word": "foreground"
}
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