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Foreshorten

Definitions: Foreshorten

Foreshorten

Verb

1. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".

2. Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Foreshorten

Synonyms: abbreviate (v), abridge (v), contract (v), cut (v), reduce (v), shorten (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Foreshorten

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Foreshorten

"Foreshorten" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Foreshorten" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Foreshorten

Language Translations for "foreshorten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

рисувам в ракурс. (various references)

   

German

  

verkürzen (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, cut down, cut short, decrease, end, narrow, reduce, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to shorten), perspektivisch verkürzen. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

skurcban rajzol (to foreshorten), skurcban fest (to foreshorten), skurcban ábrázol (to foreshorten), rövidülésben rajzol (to foreshorten), rövidülésben fest (to foreshorten), rövidülésben ábrázol (to foreshorten). (various references)

   

Italian

  

disegnare di scorcio. (various references)

   

Manx

  

girraghey (abbreviate, abridge, abridgement, abridging, contract, shorten, shortening). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oreshortenfay

   

Portuguese

  

faixa litoral submergível. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

desena un obiect în perspectivã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рисовать или чертить в перспективе или ракурсе, брать в ракурсе. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

skratiti (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut short, detruncate, reduce, shorten, syncopate, telescope, truncate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yanındakini küçük göstermek, yanında küçük göstermek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Foreshorten

Derivations

Words beginning with "foreshorten": foreshortened, foreshortening, foreshortens. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Foreshorten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foreshort, forshorten. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Foreshorten"

Words rhyming with "foreshorten" (pronounced 'Fore*short"en'): Affrighten, Baken, Barken, Bedizen, Beechen, Bequethen, Birchen, Bolden, Boughten, boxen, Bracken, Breaden, Cheapen, Cheven, Chicken, Closen, Coarsen, Cosen, Crooken, Deafen, Dusken, Embolden, Encolden, Fielden, flaxen, Fleeten, Floren, Flowen, Fordrunken, Foughten, Fraken, freshen, frighten, Furzen, Geten, Gilden, Glassen, Glazen, Gliden, groschen, harken, hearten, heighten, hempen, Henen, laden, leaden, Leten, Leven, Lifen. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Foreshorten

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-n-o-o-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: shorefront.

-2 letters: foreshore, rooftrees, shortener.

-3 letters: forester, fosterer, honester, honorees, honorers, northers, oestrone, reforest, refronts, rooftree, softener, therefor.

-4 letters: eftsoon, enroots, estrone, ferrets, festoon, foetors, footers, freshen, fresher, freshet, fronter, frontes, hefters, heteros, honoree, honorer, hoofers, hooters, hornets, horrent, norther, oftener, onshore, refresh, refront, renters, reroofs, reshone, reshoot, restore, rhetors, roofers, rooster, rooters, sheroot.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-n-o-o-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: foreshortens.

 

+2 letters: foreshortened.

 

+3 letters: foreshortening.

 

+5 letters: weatherproofness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Foreshorten


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6F 72 65 73 68 6F 72 74 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ---    .-.    .    ...    ....    ---    .-.    -    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006F 0072 0065 0073 0068 006F 0072 0074 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4081847185748184867180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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