Foreshortening
vb (tr)
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art
Terms) to represent (a line, form, object, etc.) as shorter than actual length
in order to give an illusion of recession or projection, in accordance with the
laws of linear perspective
2. to make shorter or more condensed;
reduce or abridge
Definition: Foreshortening occurs when an
object appears compressed when seen from a particular viewpoint, and the effect
of perspective causes distortion. Foreshortening is a particularly effective
artistic device, used to give the impression of three-dimensional volume and
create drama in a picture.
Foreshortening is most successful when accurately rendered on
the picture plane to create the illusion of a figure in space.
abbreviate
vb (tr)
1. to shorten (a word or phrase) by
contraction or omission of some letters or words
2. to shorten (a speech or piece of
writing) by omitting sections, paraphrasing, etc.
3. to cut short
bowdlerize
vb
(Literary
& Literary Critical Terms) (tr) to remove passages or words regarded
as indecent from (a play, novel, etc.);
expurgate
tr.v. ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing,
ex·pur·gates
To
remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from
(a book, for example) before publication.
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resolution
noun
1.
a formal expression of opinion or intention made,
usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other
group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
2.
a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do
something.
3.
the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of
action, method, procedure, etc.
4.
the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute;
firmness of purpose.
5.
the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent
or elementary parts.
gender
noun
a.
(in many languages) a set of
classes that together include all nouns,
membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself
or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to
the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages
varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with
sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as
masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and
neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
b.
one class of such a set.
c.
such classes or sets collectively or in general.
d.
membership of a word or
grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
2.
sex: the feminine gender.
3.
Archaic . kind, sort, or class.
contrast
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( often
foll by with ) to distinguish or be distinguished by comparison of unlike or opposite qualities
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2.
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distinction or emphasis
of difference by comparison of opposite or dissimilar
things, qualities, etc (esp in the phrases by contrast, in contrast to or with )
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3.
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a person or thing showing
notable differences when compared with another
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4.
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(in painting) the effect of the juxtaposition
of different colours, tones, etc
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5.
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a. (of a photographic emulsion) the degree of
density measured against exposure used
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b. the extent to which adjacent
areas of an optical image, esp on a television screen or in a photographic
negative or print, differ in brightness
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6.
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psychol the phenomenon that when two different but related stimuli are
presented close together in space and/or time
they are perceived as being more different
than they really are
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separation
noun
1.
an act or instance of separating or the state of being
separated.
2.
a place, line, or point of parting.
3.
a gap, hole, rent, or the like.
4.
something that separates or divides.
5.
Law .
edge
[ej] noun, verb, edged, edg·ing.
[ej] noun, verb, edged, edg·ing.
noun
1.
a line or border at which a
surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle
edges.
2.
a brink or verge: the edge of a cliff; the edge of disaster.
3.
4.
a line at which two surfaces of a solid object meet: an edge of a box.
5.
the thin, sharp side of the blade of a cutting instrument or
weapon.
split [split] verb, split, split·ting, noun, adjective
verb (used with object)
1.
to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
2.
to separate by cutting, chopping, etc., usually lengthwise: to split a piece from a block.
3.
4.
to divide into distinct parts or portions (often followed by up ): We split up our rations.
5.
to separate (a part) by such division.
division
noun
1.
the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
2.
Arithmetic . the operation inverse to multiplication; the finding of a
quantity, the quotient, that when multiplied by a given quantity, the divisor,
gives another given quantity, the dividend; the process of ascertaining how
many times one number or quantity is contained in another.
3.
something that divides or separates; partition.
4.
something that marks a division; dividing line or
mark.
5.
one of the parts into which a
thing is divided; section.
