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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishframen,fremen,fremmen(“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), fromOld Englishframian,fremian,fremman(“to profit, avail, advance”), fromProto-West Germanic*frammjan, fromProto-Germanic*framjaną(“to further, promote, perform”), fromProto-Indo-European*promo-(“front, forward”).

Cognate withLow Germanframen(“to commit, effect”),Danishfremme(“to promote, further, perform”),Swedishfrämja(“to promote, encourage, foster”),Icelandicfremja(“to commit”). More atfrom.

Verb

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frame (third-person singular simple presentframes,present participleframing,simple past and past participleframed)

  1. (transitive) Tofit, as for a specific end or purpose; makesuitable orcomfortable;adapt;adjust.
  2. (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting 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.
  4. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
    Once we finishframing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
  5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside adecorativeborder.
  6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
    The directorframes the fishing scene very well.
  7. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish acontext for understanding orinterpretation.
    How would youframe your accomplishments?
    The way the opposition hasframed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
    They haveframed this sentencing bill as not caring about victims; we have toframe it as preventing government overreach.
  8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
    Synonyms:frame up,put up,set up
    The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort toframe her.
  9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) Towash ore with the aid of a frame.
  10. (intransitive, dialectal) Tomove.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
  12. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
  13. (transitive, obsolete) Tostrengthen;refresh;support.
  14. (transitive, obsolete) Toexecute;perform.
    All have sworn him an oath that they shouldframe his will on earth.
  15. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
  16. (intransitive, obsolete) Toprofit;avail.
  17. (intransitive, obsolete) Tofit;accord.
    • 1531,William Tyndale,An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:
      When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make themframe, thou must be fain to cast them out.
  18. (intransitive, obsolete) Tosucceed in doing or trying to do something;manage.
Synonyms
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  • (conspire to incriminate):fit up
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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put together the structural elements
add a decorative border to a picture
position visually within a fixed boundary
establish a context in words
cause a person to appear guilty

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishframe(“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also fromOld Norseframi(“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); andframe(“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rareAnglo-Norman andOld Frenchframe,fraine(“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately fromFrankish*hramu(“frame”) related toDutchraam(“window frame”).

Noun

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

frame (pluralframes)

  1. The structural elements of abuilding or other constructed object.
    Now that theframe is complete, we can start on the walls.
  2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; astructure.
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act IIII, scene ii:
      The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare,
      Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps,
      Will ſooner burne the gloriousframe of Heauen,
      Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universalframe.
  3. A humanbody or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one'sbuild.
    Synonym:carriage
    His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposingframe.
  4. A rigid, generally rectangularmounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretriciousframes, 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 carvedframe.
  5. A piece of photographicfilm containing an image.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV ClubIce Age: Continental Drift
      If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of theframe says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of theframe, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
    A film projector shows manyframes in a single second.
  6. Acontext for understanding orinterpretation.
    In thisframe, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
    • 2020 May, Kelcie Ralph, Ian Girardeau, “Distracted by “distracted pedestrians”?”, inTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, volume 5:
      Interests groups compete to have their preferredframes shape policy discussions.
  7. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, frombreak-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have beenpotted.
  8. (networking) An independentchunk ofdata sent over anetwork.
  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 astrike, and three balls in the case of a strike or aspare in the last frame of a game.
  10. (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
    • 1878, John Henry Walsh,British Rural Sports, page712:
      In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches theframe.
  11. (horticulture) Amovablestructure used for thecultivation or thesheltering ofplants.
    a forcing-frame; a cucumberframe
  12. (philately) The outerdecoratedportion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
  13. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
  15. (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
  16. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of awebpage.
  17. (baseball, slang) Aninning.
  18. (engineering, dated, chiefly UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
    a stockingframe; a laceframe; a spinningframe
  19. (dated)Frame of mind;disposition.
    to be always in a happyframe
    • 1847,Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, inWuthering Heights‎[2]:
      And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holierframe than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.
  20. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
  21. (dated, video games) Astage orlocation in avideo game.
    • 1982, Gilsoft International,Mongoose (video game instructions)[3]
      When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on theframe you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.
    • 1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) inCrash (issue 2, pages 73-74)
      Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during theframe though.
    • 1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) inCrash (issue 18, page 104)
      The firstframe, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.
  22. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
  23. (computing) A form ofknowledgerepresentation inartificial intelligence.
  24. (mathematics) Acomplete lattice in whichmeets distribute over arbitraryjoins.
Quotations
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  • 1696, William Stephens,An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, page17:
    ...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation andframe...
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Translations
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structural elements of a building or other constructed object
structure of a person's body
rigid, generally rectangular mounting
piece of photographic film containing an image
complete game of snooker
chunk of data
division of a second
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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishframe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frame n (pluralframes,diminutiveframepje n)

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

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German

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Verb

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frame

  1. inflection offramen:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
    3. singularimperative

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishframe.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈfɾej.mi/[ˈfɾeɪ̯.mi]
    • (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈfɾej.me/[ˈfɾeɪ̯.me]
 

Noun

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frame m (pluralframes)

  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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