0 past simple and past participle of foreground
1 to give the most importance to a particular subject, etc.:
It has absorbed and then foregrounded major new ways of thinking.
These build to a tutti equivalent of the old-style fanfare, with strings foregrounded over supporting brass.
The discussion in that seminar room foregrounded for me some of the issues of pronunciation teaching which surfaced in the years that followed.
Yet, it is a post-modernist flaw to consider just the symbolic or foregrounded aspects of culture.
In a world where education is often conducted in a multicultural situation, membership or identity in intercultural communication must become foregrounded.
Other differences emerged when taking photos: what should be foregrounded, and how should these items be framed?
This sound is foregrounded until around 10:00, when it is gradually faded out.
This mode of perception foregrounded the player, transforming dramatic character into a theatrical entity.
