middle distance
Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
(in track) a race distance ranging from 400 meters or 440 yards to 1 mile.
Origin of middle distance
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How to use middle distance in a sentence
Such warm skies and cold middle distances and foregrounds are too antagonistic for the harmony of nature.
The Evolution of Photography | John WergeIn landscapes it is used in skies and the middle distances, but not in the foreground, unless mixed with yellow.
Crayon Portraiture | Jerome A. BarhydtIn landscapes a little can be used in the skies, the middle distances, and lights on the ground in the foreground.
Crayon Portraiture | Jerome A. BarhydtIt was the one small lapse from the strict conventionalities, but it sufficed to cut out all the middle distances.
The Price | Francis LyndeHis middle distances are good.intricacy even in the best works of the old masters.
Modern Painters Volume I (of V) | John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for middle-distance
athletics relating to or denoting races of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
Also called: middle ground part of a painting, esp a landscape between the foreground and far distance
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