foreshorten|foreshortened|foreshortening|foreshortens in English

verb

draw in perspective to give the appearance of depth; shorten, minimize

Use "foreshorten|foreshortened|foreshortening|foreshortens" in a sentence

1. We have foreshortening in this left leg.

2. She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.

3. Viewed from above, their bodies were foreshortened and partly hidden.

4. Oversize posters foreshorten and Ameliorate the overpowering, tunnel-like perspective

5. To see why these images are not true perspective Anamorphoses, see the description of foreshortening

6. Smoking was certainly one of the factors that foreshortened his life.

7. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.

8. Morse code Abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases

9. The logo, a life study of a foreshortened figure, represents an ideal of development.

10. The decision to foreshorten the leadership election timetable proved to be a serious error.

11. Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front.

12. It will be very adjuvant for you to foreshorten the essential points in the book.

13. Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time.

14. Seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance.

15. Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.

16. The evaluate of noesis accruement exceeds the abilities of most scientists, and especially old scientists, to foreshorten by datum the direct literature.

17. It is an Axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angle between any two of them is 120 degrees

18. A Carbine, strikingly foreshortened, lay across the pommel of the saddle, kept in place by the right hand grasping it at the "grip"; the left hand, holding the bridle rein, was invisible

19. ‘The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping Contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.’

20. Bowdlerise: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate Synonyms: bowdlerize , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

21. Bowdlerize: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate “ Bowdlerize a novel” Synonyms: bowdlerise , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

22. ‘The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping Contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.’

23. Bowdlerize: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate “ bowdlerize a novel” Synonyms: Bowdlerise , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

24. Bowdlerize - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "Bowdlerize a novel" bowdlerise , expurgate , castrate , shorten abbreviate , abridge , foreshorten , shorten , contract , reduce , cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

25. Abbreviate - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" abridge , foreshorten , shorten , contract , reduce , cut bowdlerise , bowdlerize , expurgate , castrate , shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"