English-Thai Dictionary

foreshorten

VT ย่อ ข้อความ ให้ สั้น ลง (คำ ทางการ  ทำให้ สั้น ขึ้น  abridge yor-kor-kwam-hai-san-long

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORESHORTEN

v.t.In painting; to shorten figures for the sake of showing those behind.

 

FORESHORTENING

n.In painting, the act of shortening figures for the sake of showing those behind. The art of conveying to the mind the impression of the entire length of an object, when represented as viewed in an oblique or receding position.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FORESHORTEN

FORESHORTEN Fore *short "en, v. t.

 

1. (Fine Art )

 

Defn: 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.

 

FORESHORTENING

FORESHORTENING Fore *short "en *ing, n. (Fine Arts )

 

Defn: Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

foreshorten

fore short en |fôrˈSHôrtn fɔrˈʃɔrtn | ▶verb [ with obj. ] portray or show (an object or view ) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision: seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened. • prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something ) in time or scale: (as adj. foreshortened ) : foreshortened reports.

 

Oxford Dictionary

foreshorten

fore |short ¦en |fɔːˈʃɔːt (ə )n | ▶verb [ with obj. ] portray or show (an object or view ) as closer than it really is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision: seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened. • (often as adj. foreshortened ) prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something ) in time or scale: Leicestershire won by 133 runs in a foreshortened contest.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

foreshorten

fore sh ó rten 動詞 他動詞 1 〘美 〙…を (遠近法で )奥行きを縮めて描く .2 …を短縮 [縮小 ]する .

 

foreshortened

fore sh ó rtened 形容詞 〈物 場所などが 〉 (実際より )小さく [近く ]見える ; 縮小された .