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Foreshorten   Listen
Foreshorten

verb
1.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten.
2.
Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.





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"Foreshorten" Quotes from Famous Books



... which are on the upright wall m n are to be drawn in their proper form, since, as the wall recedes the figure will be foreshortened by itself; but [that part of] the figure which goes into the cove you must foreshorten, as if it were standing upright; this diminution you must set out on a flat floor and there must stand the figure which is to be transferred from the vertical plane r n[Footnote 17: che leverai dalla ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci


Words linked to "Foreshorten" :   edit, bowdlerise, castrate, minify, bowdlerize, abridge, concentrate, decrease, expand, digest, lessen, expurgate, edit out, condense


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