The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
FORESHORTENING
Noun
foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)
(arts) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.
Verb
foreshortening
present participle of foreshorten
Source: Wiktionary
Fore*short"en*ing, n. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
FORESHORTEN
Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (Fine Art)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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