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frame crate

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.

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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.