foreshorten : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: foreshorten	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for foreshorten
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foreshorten v reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" Synonym(s): abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce Antonym(s): dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson.