frame

[ freym ]

/ freɪm /

noun

a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.

a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.

a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame.

a structure for admitting or enclosing something: a window frame.

Usually frames. (used with a plural verb) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.

form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.

a particular state, as of the mind: an unhappy frame of mind.

Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.

Television. a single traversal by the electron beam of all the scanning lines on a television screen. In the U.S. this is a total of 525 lines traversed in 1/30 (0.033) second. Compare field(def 19).

Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.

Bowling.

one of the ten divisions of a game.
one of the squares on the scorecard, in which the score for a given frame is recorded.

Pool. rack¹(def 3).

Baseball. an inning.

Slang. a frame-up.

enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.

the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.

Nautical.

any of a number of transverse, riblike members for supporting and stiffening the shell of each side of a hull.
any of a number of longitudinal members running between web frames to support and stiffen the shell plating of a metal hull.

a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production: drawing frame; spinning frame.

Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.

Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.

in frame, Shipbuilding. (of a hull) with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.

verb (used with object), framed, fram·ing.

to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.

to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem: to frame a new constitution.

to conceive or imagine, as an idea.

Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc.

to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.

to give utterance to: Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest.

to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.

to fashion or shape: to frame a bust from marble.

to shape or adapt to a particular purpose: to frame a reading list for ninth graders.

Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.

to adjust (film) in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.

to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.

Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.

verb (used without object), framed, fram·ing.

Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.

Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.

Origin of frame

before 1000; 1910–15 for def 8; 1920–25 for def 25; (v.) Middle English framen to prepare (timber), Old English framian to avail, profit; cognate with Old Norse frama to further, Old High German ( gi)framōn to do; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

OTHER WORDS FROM frame

fram·a·ble, frame·a·ble, adjective fram·a·ble·ness, frame·a·ble·ness, noun frame·less, adjective fram·er, noun

de·frame, verb (used with object), de·framed, de·fram·ing. mis·frame, verb, mis·framed, mis·fram·ing. re·frame, verb (used with object), re·framed, re·fram·ing. sub·frame, noun un·fram·a·ble, adjective un·fram·a·ble·ness, noun un·fram·a·bly, adverb un·frame·a·ble, adjective un·frame·a·ble·ness, noun un·frame·a·bly, adverb un·framed, adjective well-framed, adjective

Words nearby frame

fraktur, frambesia, frambesioma, framboesia, framboise, frame, frame aerial, frame house, frame line, frame of mind, frame of reference

Example sentences from the Web for frame

The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.

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“For your $30 million Ruschas and $60 million Rothkos, you need to see the quality of the frame and brushstrokes,” he says.

William, Kate, and Jay Z’s Favorite Art Star: Alexander Gilkes' World of Rock Stars and Royalty |Tim Teeman |December 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
They were still working on moviolas and working one frame at a time.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons |Rich Goldstein |November 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
FDR was also careful to frame the unprecedented government action as something common sense and essentially pragmatic.

FDR: King of All Media |John Avlon |September 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

In addition to lacking compelling personal narratives, the “pro-choice” frame is itself a loser.

Ten Reasons Women Are Losing While Gays Keep Winning |Jay Michaelson |July 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This is the moment, therefore, for us to frame our inexorable resolution.

The Wrack of the Storm |Maurice Maeterlinck
Mulford knew them at a glance, and a cold shudder passed through his frame, as he recognised them.

Jack Tier or The Florida Reef |James Fenimore Cooper
The door is a frame of thin strips of wood neatly thatched over.

Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel & Exploration |W. B. Lord
This does not form one body with the rest of the frame, but is attached extemporaneously to it by bars and wedged bolts.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines |Andrew Ure
He braced his frame like one preparing for a plunge into cold waters.

The Woman in Black |Edmund Clerihew Bentley

British Dictionary definitions for frame (1 of 2)

frame

/ (freɪm) /

noun

an open structure that gives shape and support to something, such as the transverse stiffening ribs of a ship's hull or an aircraft's fuselage or the skeletal beams and uprights of a building

an enclosing case or border into which something is fitted the frame of a picture

the system around which something is built up the frame of government

the structure of the human body

a condition; state (esp in the phrase frame of mind)

one of a series of individual exposures on a strip of film used in making motion pictures
an individual exposure on a film used in still photography
an individual picture in a comic strip

a television picture scanned by one or more electron beams at a particular frequency
the area of the picture so formed

billiards snooker

the wooden triangle used to set up the balls
the balls when set up
a single game finished when all the balls have been pottedUS and Canadian equivalent (for senses 8a, 8b): rack

computing (on a website) a self-contained section that functions independently from other parts; by using frames, a website designer can make some areas of a website remain constant while others change according to the choices made by the internet user

short for cold frame

one of the sections of which a beehive is composed, esp one designed to hold a honeycomb

a machine or part of a machine over which yarn is stretched in the production of textiles

(in language teaching, etc) a syntactic construction with a gap in it, used for assigning words to syntactic classes by seeing which words may fill the gap

statistics an enumeration of a population for the purposes of sampling, esp as the basis of a stratified sample

(in telecommunications, computers, etc) one cycle of a regularly recurring number of pulses in a pulse train

slang another word for frame-up

obsolete shape; form

in the frame likely to be awarded or to achieve I'm in the frame for the top job

verb (mainly tr)

to construct by fitting parts together

to draw up the plans or basic details for; outline to frame a policy

to compose, contrive, or conceive to frame a reply

to provide, support, or enclose with a frame to frame a picture

to form (words) with the lips, esp silently

slang to conspire to incriminate (someone) on a false charge

slang to contrive the dishonest outcome of (a contest, match, etc); rig

(intr) Yorkshire and Northeast English dialect

(usually imperative or dependent imperative) to make an effort
to have ability

Derived forms of frame

framable or frameable, adjective frameless, adjective framer, noun

Word Origin for frame

Old English framiae to avail; related to Old Frisian framia to carry out, Old Norse frama

British Dictionary definitions for frame (2 of 2)

Frame

/ (freɪm) /

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Janet . 1924–2004, and New Zealand writer: author of the novels Owls Do Cry (1957) and Faces in the Water (1961), the collection of verse The Pocket (1967), and volumes of autobiography including An Angel at My Table (1984), which was made into a film in 1990

Medical definitions for frame

frame

[ frām ]

n.

Something composed of parts fitted and joined together.

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