frame
noun
1. the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
Definition categories: man–made, frame, framework
2. a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
Definition categories: man–made, exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture
3. alternative names for the body of a human being
Similar word(s): anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, physique, shape, soma
Definition categories: body
4. (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
Similar word(s): inning
Definition categories: time, division, part, section
5. a single drawing in a comic strip
Definition categories: communication, drawing
6. an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
Definition categories: communication, application
7. a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
Definition categories: thought, system
8. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
Similar word(s): skeleton
Definition categories: body, system
9. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
Similar word(s): skeleton, underframe
Definition categories: man–made
10. a structure supporting or containing something
Similar word(s): framework
Definition categories: man–made
11. a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention
- the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held
Similar word(s): framing
Definition categories: man–made, frame, framework
12. one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
Definition categories: act, division, part, section
Sentences with frame as a noun:
- Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
- His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
- The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
- A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
- In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
- a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
- to be always in a happy frame
verb
1. enclose in or as if in a frame
- frame a picture
Similar word(s): border
Definition categories: contact, enclose, inclose
2. enclose in a frame, as of a picture
Definition categories: stative, confine, enclose
3. take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- The innocent man was framed by the police
Similar word(s): ensnare, entrap
Definition categories: social, cozen, deceive, delude
4. formulate in a particular style or language
Similar word(s): cast, couch, put, redact
Definition categories: communication, articulate, formulate, phrase, word
5. make up plans or basic details for
- frame a policy
Similar word(s): compose
Definition categories: cognition, plan
6. construct by fitting or uniting parts together
Definition categories: creation, build, construct, make
Sentences with frame as a verb:
- 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.
- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ― Shakespeare.
- 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.
- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
- An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ― E. Brontë.