frame meaning
EN[freɪm] [-eɪm]US
WFrame
- A frame is a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction.
- Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
- NounPLframes
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structure of a person's body.
- His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
- a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
- (dated) frame of mind; disposition.
- to be always in a happy frame
- (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
- (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
- (genetics: reading frame) A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- VerbSGframesPRframingPT, PPframed
- (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
- At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame. ― Spenser.
- (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ― Shakespeare.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
- When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame, thou must be fain to cast them out. ― Tyndale.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ― E. Brontë.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
- (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Atwood calls The Year of the Flood a "simultaneal," since the time frame overlaps with Oryx and Crake and some of the characters from that earlier book reappear.
- ...all the hinges of the animal frame are subverted, every animal function is vitiated; the carcass retains but just life enough to make it capable of suffering.
- Luxury did not spoil her; and any one that saw her in the soft furs of her winter wrappings, would have said that delicate cheek and frame were never made to know the unkindliness of harsher things.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- No more than a total of ten cannulation attempts (defined as a sustained contact between the sphincterotome and the papilla for at least five seconds) were allowed during this time frame.
- She thus gave herself a kind of superpresence, allowing us to see that the source of all the explosive energy we had witnessed onstage was her diminutive frame.
- He doesn't give a damn about your child's painting, he's just interested in the gold frame.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of frame in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary