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Meaning frame meaning

What does frame mean?
Definitions in simple English

frame Noun

— The parts of a building that are strong and that hold the other parts up. Now that the frame is done, we can start on the walls. — The strong parts (bones) of a person's body. His starved flesh hung on his frame. — Something, often made of wood, around the outside of a picture. The painting was in a beautifully carved frame. — The outer part of a stamp's image, usually decorated. — A part of a strip of photographic film, the size of one image. A film projector shows many frames in a single second. — A way of understanding, a point of view. In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed. — A game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls have been potted. — A chunk of data sent over the wires of a network. — In bowling, a set of balls whose results are added for scoring. — A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.

frame Verb

— People frame a building when they put together the strong parts while they're building or constructing it. Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof. — Someone frames a picture such as a painting or photograph when they add a decorative border. — Someone who is taking a picture with a camera frames something when they carefully put it inside the edges of the picture in a nice way. The director frames the fishing scene very well. — To put together words to make a point of view (way of thinking) 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. — Someone frames someone else of a crime such as murder that they didn't do when they make things seem as if the person did the crime. He put the gun in her car to try to frame her.

frame

— noun the framework for a pair of eyeglasses — noun a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film — verb enclose in or as if in a frame frame a picture — verb enclose in a frame, as of a picture — noun (= human body, physique, flesh) alternative names for the body of a human being Leonardo studied the human body he has a strong physique the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak — noun (= inning) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat — verb make up plans or basic details for frame a policy — verb (= cast, put) formulate in a particular style or language I wouldn't put it that way She cast her request in very polite language — verb (= set up) take or catch as if in a snare or trap I was set up! The innocent man was framed by the police — verb construct by fitting or uniting parts together — noun a single drawing in a comic_strip — noun an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently — noun (= framing) 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 — noun one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided — noun (= frame of reference) a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning — noun the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal — noun (= skeleton) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape the building has a steel skeleton

Synonyms frame synonyms

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frame English » English

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Topics frame topics

What do people use frame to talk about?
Daily life Household equipment

Household decoration
Work and occupation

Working with buildings
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Wall
States Parts of things

Edge
Language and thought Think Opinion

Philosophy
Language and thought

Emotion
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Window

Conjugation frame conjugation

How do you conjugate frame?

frame · verb

Examples frame examples

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Simple sentences

Bob mounted the portrait in a fancy frame, but it was upside down.
She fixed hooks to the window frame.
The frame has to be sanded and varnished.
Do you like the frame on this painting?
The frame of the house should be finished in a day or two.
The door frame is warped and the door won't close properly.
If we don't make it, we shall need to prolong the time frame.
If we don't make it, we'll need to prolong the time frame.
Can you frame this picture?
Can you frame this picture for me?
When the frame is finished, the spider fixes lines of silk across it, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
These are two pictures with a nice frame.
It's best for Tom not to be left alone in that frame of mind.
So fine was the thread that no frame could be found to weave it upon, nor would any weaver undertake to make one.
From what material is the frame of your glasses?
They made a frame with tape.

Movie subtitles

The camera is switched off without Declan leaning forward or leaving frame.
What are you trying to do, frame me?
Why, it's a silver frame.
Just a simple little frame-up.
What did I say? It's a frame-up.
It's a frame-down.
That's what it is, a frame-down!
You know all you need is a frame now and you'd be a masterpiece.
It's as pretty a frame-up as ever hit this rotten town.
It's obviously a frame-up.
They're trying to frame you.
Oh, she's going to frame him!
She's with Whitmore. She's trying to frame you.
It was only later in the day that a workman found the frame in a little storeroom under the salon care.
Take it out of the frame and put this one in its place.
Fixing these slight problem areas was accomplished by individuals who carefully retouched the film, frame by frame, with a very small brush and opaque dye.
It's a frame-up.
You're not suggesting a frame?
If we spring this, the Allenburys are bound to smell a frame-up!
But I tell you, this is a frame-up!
Oh, so you're buying rings now. I suppose that's part of the frame-up too?
They did not hesitate to fake nationality to frame us, there must definitely be a reason.
You're not suggesting a frame? But we've got to get to this girl. and I'm gonna bring in the best man we ever had.
When I was here before, I noticed a photograph of a woman. on the desk in a wide silver frame.
Trying to frame me, huh?
What is it, a frame-up?
You mean he'll try to frame a substitute for Paul Clarke?
Baku, he's trying to frame us!
You tried to frame someone else to fit that picture.
He says he ain't no welsher, but in his opinion, the taxi bet was a frame.
I never lock my door. You took it to frame me.
MAN 2: Yeah, the whole thing was a frame, eh, Paul?

News and current affairs

Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
But they can often frame the choices and broker coalitions to push the existing boundaries of European integration.
What's needed is a more positive frame of mind, and specific ideas about what to do.
Europe's science policies should also frame a new deal for developing countries.
To formulate such a policy requires us to frame a single energy policy.
A few geniuses aside, economists frame their assumptions to suit existing states of affairs, and then invest them with an aura of permanent truth.
The environmentalists put their money on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and picked a time frame of 10 years.
Given that there are little more than two months until the Copenhagen summit on climate change, which is supposed to frame the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, this is depressing.
The first concerns the term likely to be used to frame the debate: competitiveness.
Certainly, political union and a common market require a uniform frame of reference to prevent major distortions in competition.
It is useful to keep an eye on these commonalities, because they frame the conduct of appropriate economic policies.
Allowing them to frame these problems in religious terms legitimizes the perspective that they are attempting to impose, particularly in their own societies.It also allows them to camouflage their very worldly thirst for power.
The policy challenge within this frame of reference is: how do we make the world safe for free trade in goods, services, and capital?
As a result, they took care to frame their demands in ways that provided a measure of Islamic identity.
But to frame the issue in this way is, at best, to engage in delusion.
It will likely take one or two decades, not just a year or two, the proposed time frame of American military presence in Iraq after the expected ouster of Hussein.
PARIS - It is facile to frame the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo as an attack on freedom of expression.
Exceptions to this time frame exist-Singapore is one example-but exceptions prove a rule, they do not negate it.
Freedom changes the frame and substance of choice, and of individual and collective responsibility.
But there are two dangers in America's forthcoming debate. The first concerns the term likely to be used to frame the debate: competitiveness.
Under Nigeria's various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.

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