Foreshorten

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t.
     1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended
        in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to
        shorten by drawing in perspective.
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     2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
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              Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
              Foreshortened in the tract of time.   --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foreshorten
       v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
            manuscript must be shortened" [syn: {abridge}, {abbreviate},
             {shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}] [ant: {elaborate}]
       2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of
          depth

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "foreshorten":
     abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip,
     compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back,
     cut down, cut off short, cut short, dock, elide, epitomize, mow,
     nip, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce,
     retrench, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize,
     synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate