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Frame

noun

1.

The framework for a pair of eyeglasses.

2.

A single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film.

3.

Alternative names for the body of a human being. Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma. "He has a strong physique" , "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

4.

(baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat. Synonym: inning.

5.

A single drawing in a comic_strip.

6.

An application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently.

7.

A system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning. Synonym: frame of reference.

8.

The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal. Synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale.

9.

The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape. Synonyms: skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe.

10.

A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror. Synonym: framing. "The frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"

11.

One of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided.

verb

(past & past part. framed; pres. part. framing)

1.

Enclose in or as if in a frame. Synonyms: border, frame in.

2.

Enclose in a frame, as of a picture.

3.

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap. Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up. "The innocent man was framed by the police"

4.

Formulate in a particular style or language. Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact. "She cast her request in very polite language"

5.

Make up plans or basic details for. Synonyms: compose, draw up.

6.

Construct by fitting or uniting parts together. Synonym: frame up.

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"Frame" Quotes from Famous Books

... humility a kind of glorified or transcendent democracy—the practicing it rather than the talking it—the not-wanting to level all finite things, but the being willing to be leveled towards the infinite? Until humility produces that frame of mind and spirit in the artist can his audience gain the greatest kind of utility and inspiration, which might be quite invisible at first? Emerson realizes the value of "the many,"—that the law of averages has a divine source. He recognizes the various life-values ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... Prince Blucher declared repeatedly, that the allies are in no respect tenacious of the restoration of the Bourbons: but we have proofs, that they are inclined to approach as near as possible to Paris, and then they may frame some ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

... write to the Ephesians also. In entire accordance with this supposition is the general character of the epistle. The apostle has no particular error to combat, as he had in the case of the Colossians. He proceeds, therefore, in a placid and contemplative frame of mind to unfold the great work of Christ's redemption; and then makes a practical application of it, as in the epistle to the Colossians, but with more fulness, and with ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... from one point to another; but a delicate conscience must aver that there is a good deal left. The ocean is chiefly remarkable as the element out of which the dry land came. It is only when the land and sea combine to frame the mighty coast-line of a continent, and to fringe it with weed which the tide uncovers twice a day, that the mind is saluted with health and beauty. The fine instinct of Mr. Thoreau furnished him with a truth, without the trouble of a single game at pitch and toss with the mysterious ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various

... indifferently, and stood by the great polished platter-frame over the sideboard, dropping oil on the screws of a certain cunning instrument which he was wont to use in the elucidation of ...

— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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