frame

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance, perform, promote, execute, commit, do”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *framjaną (“to perform, promote”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Low German framen (“to commit, effect”), Danish fremme (“to promote, further, perform”), Swedish främja (“to promote, encourage, foster”), Icelandic fremja (“to commit”). More at from.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹeɪm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪm

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Lyly and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      frame my face to all occasions
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    • (Can we date this quote by Landor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
    • (Can we date this quote by I. Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The human mind is framed to be influenced.
  2. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
  3. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
    • (Can we date this quote by I. Watts and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
  4. (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.
  5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
  6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
    The director frames the fishing scene very well.
  7. (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.
  8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
    The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
  9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
  10. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
    • (Can we date this quote by E. Brontë and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The beauty of this sinful dame / Made many princes thither frame.
  12. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
    All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office.
  15. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
  16. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
  17. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
    • (Can we date this quote by Tyndale and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
  18. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

Synonyms

  • (conspire to incriminate): fit up

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Dutch: frame
  • → German: framen

Translations

Noun

A picture frame.
A bicycle frame (diamond frame).

frame (plural frames)

  1. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
    Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
  2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame.
  3. The structure of a person's body; the human body.
    His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
  4. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.
    The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
  5. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
    A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
  6. A context for understanding or interpretation.
    In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
  7. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
  8. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
  9. (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.
  10. (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
    a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame
  11. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
  12. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
  13. (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
  14. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
  15. (baseball, slang) An inning.
  16. (engineering, dated, chiefly UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
    a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
  17. (dated) Frame of mind; disposition.
    to be always in a happy frame
  18. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
  19. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
    • 1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [1]
      When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.
  20. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
  21. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
  22. (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.

Quotations

  • 1696, William Stephens, An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, page 17:
    ...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...

Derived terms

Translations

structure of a person's body
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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English frame.

Pronunciation

Noun

frame n (plural frames, diminutive framepje n)

  1. (snooker) frame
  2. (construction) frame

Anagrams

German

Verb

frame

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of framen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of framen.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of framen.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of framen.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English frame.

Pronunciation

Noun

frame m (plural frames)

  1. (networking) frame (independent chunk of data)
  2. (Internet) frame (individually scrollable region of a webpage)
  3. frame (individual image emitted by a projector or monitor)
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