Word Meanings - MIDDLE-GROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.

Related words: (words related to MIDDLE-GROUND)

• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• PICTURER
  One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
• PICTURE
  1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
• PICTURESQUE
  Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• PICTURED
  Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• OVERPICTURE
  To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. "O'erpicturing that Venus." Shak.