Dictionary Definition
frame
Noun
2 one of a series of still transparent
photographs on a strip of film used in making movies
3 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" [syn:
human
body, physical
body, material
body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, form, flesh]
4 a period of play in baseball during which each
team has a turn at bat [syn: inning]
5 the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that
provides a frame for the body of an animal [syn: skeletal
system, skeleton,
systema
skeletale]
6 the internal supporting structure that gives an
artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" [syn:
skeleton, skeletal
frame, underframe]
Verb
2 enclose in a frame, as of a picture
3 take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was
set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" [syn:
ensnare, entrap, set up]
4 formulate in a particular style or language; "I
wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
language" [syn: redact,
cast, put, couch]
6 construct by fitting or uniting parts together
[syn: frame
up]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English framian.Verb
- Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the
structural elements.
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- Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
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- Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to add a decorative border.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary.
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- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
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- To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or
interpretation.
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- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
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- Of a presumably innocent person, to cause to appear guilty.
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- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
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Translations
put together the structural elements
- German: ausarbeiten, entwerfen
add a decorative border to a picture
position visually within a fixed boundary
- German: rahmen, festlegen
- Greek: καδράρω
- Polish: komponować
- Swedish: komponera
establish a context in words
cause a person to appear guilty
- Finnish: lavastaa
- German: hereinlegen, anhängen, reinlegen
- Greek: παγιδεύω
- Polish: wrabiać
- Russian: подставить (podstàvit') perfective
- Swedish: sätta dit
Noun
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed
object.
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- Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.''
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- The structure of a person's body.
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- His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
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- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or
other flexible material.
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- The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
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- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
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- A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
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- A context for
understanding or interpretation.
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- In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
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- A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- An independent chunk of data sent over the wires of a network.
- In the context of "bowling": A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- In the context of "animation": A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
Translations
structural elements of a building or other
constructed object
- Finnish: runko
- German: Gerüst, Rahmen
- Greek: σκελετός
- Hungarian: váz, tartószerkezet
- Italian: impalcatura , incastellatura , armatura , telaio (of a bicycle)
- Swedish: stomme, bjälklag
structure of a person's body
- Catalan: constitució
- Finnish: keho
- German: Gestalt, Figur
- Hungarian: alkat, testalkat
- Italian: scheletro, ossatura,
- Swedish: kroppsbyggnad
rigid, generally rectangular mounting
piece of photographic film containing an image
complete game of snooker
chunk of data
- German: Frame, Rahmen
- Polish: ramka
- Swedish: ram
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
A frame is a structural
system that supports other components of a physical
construction.
Frame may also refer to:
Building and construction
- Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber
- Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
- Door frame or window frame, structures fixed to buildings, vehicles or other containers to which the hinges of doors or windows are attached and can be locked shut.
- A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
- Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
- Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight materials
- Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building.
Science and mathematics
- , therapeutic model focused on certain problems of youth
- Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription
- Frame of a vector space, a generalization of a basis to sets of linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
- Frame of reference, the set of coordinates in which a system is observed
- Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
- Projective frame, in projective geometry
- Moving frame, in differential geometry
- Frames and locales, in order theory
- Frame bundle, in mathematics is a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle.
- Basis (linear algebra), an ordered basis is also called a "frame"
Computer science
- Data frame, a data-link layer PDU
- Stack frame, a part of a call stack
- Frame synchronization, receiving a stream of framed data. This is sometimes referred to as "framing".
- Framework, software
- a data structure in frame languages
- the frame problem in artificial intelligence
- Framing
(World Wide Web), a method of displaying multiple HTML
documents on one page
- HTML frame, the frame element in HTML
- Frame Technology, a desktop publishing software company
- Frame (Artificial intelligence), in the field of Artificial Intelligence, frames are machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation. Roughly speaking, they are similar to the object-oriented paradigm where they represent classes (called frames) with certain properties called attributes or slots whereas they do not have methods.
Film
- Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
- Reframing (film technique), in film and programming
- E-frame, in the animated science fiction series Exosquad
- Knightmare Frame, in the anime series Code Geass
- Freeze frame (or Freeze Frame) can refer to:
- Freeze frame shot, a cinematographic technique
- Freeze frame television, a technique making use of freeze frame shots
- Freeze Frame (Godley & Creme album), an album by Godley & Creme
- Freeze Frame (J. Geils Band album), an album by the J. Geils Band
- Freeze Frame (film), a 2004 film directed by John Simpson
- Freeze Frame (pricing game), a pricing game on The Price is Right
- Freeze Frame'' (TV movie), a 1992 TV movie starring Shannen Doherty
Music
- The Frames, an Irish rock band.
- A Frames, the Seattle rock band.
- Frames (album), the third album by English rock band Oceansize
- Frame Dieter Dierks, a 1972 German Krautrock band.
Vehicles for transportation
- Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
- frame
(vehicle), on which the carrossery of the automobile is mounted
- Body-on-frame, construction technology for automobiles
- subframe
- chassis
- Steam locomotive article includes section on engine frames
General
- Frame (beehive), a structural element that holds honeycomb
- Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
- Spinning frame
- Water frame
- Dressing frame
- Frame (dance), a connection between lead and follow in partner dancing
- climbing frame; a children's attraction in parks
- Framing (social sciences), terminology used in communication theory and sociology, where it relates to the contextual presentation of media content
- Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
- Frame tale, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
- Glossary of cue sports terms#Frame, for definition of terms "frames" in games: bowling and snooker
- FRAME (magazine), design magazine from the Netherlands
- Eyeglass Frames
People
frame in German: Frame
frame in Persian: قاب
frame in French: Frame
frame in Korean: 프레임
frame in Italian: Frame
frame in Dutch: Frame
frame in Japanese: フレーム
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Platonic form, Platonic idea, adjoin, aesthetic form, anatomy, angle, appendicular skeleton,
archetype, architectonics, architecture, arrange, arrangement, art form,
assemble, attitude, axial skeleton,
backing, bank, base, baseboard, basement, bear false witness,
bearing, befringe, beget, bent, bibliofilm, bind, bipack, black-and-white film,
block out, blueprint,
board, body, body-build, bones, border, bordure, bound, box in, brand, breed, brew, brim, bring forth, bring into
being, brink, brow, build, building, bushing, cabal, cadre, calculate, call into being,
carcass, cartridge, carve, case, casement, casing, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics,
chassis, chisel, clay, clod, coast, coin, collude, color film, color
negative film, complexion, complot, compose, composition, compound, conceive, concert, concoct, condition, configuration, conformation, connive, conspire, constituents, constitution, construct, construction, context, contrive, cook up, corpus, couch, couch in terms, countermine, counterplot, crasis, create, creation, cue, cut, cut out, dado, design, develop, devise, dharma, diathesis, discover, disposition, doorframe, dope, draft, draw up, dream up, dry
plate, edge, edging, efform, elaborate, elevate, embody in words,
emulsion, enclose, enframe, engender, engineer, entrap, erect, ethos, evolve, exoskeleton, express, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, false witness,
fashion, fashioning, featheredge, fiber, figuration, figure, film, finagle, finesse, fix, flange, flesh, foot, footing, forecast, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation, formularize, formulate, found, foundation, frame of mind,
frame up, frame-up, framework, framing, fringe, fudge together, generate, genius, genre, get up, getup, give being to, give
expression to, give rise to, give words to, grain, habit, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up,
heart, hem, hew, hue, hulk, humor, humors, ilk, impression, improvise, indite, infrastructure, inner
form, intend, intrigue, invent, keel, kind, knead, knock out, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lattice, latticework, lay a plot, lay
out, lay plans, layout,
ledge, lick into shape,
limb, limbus, line, lip, list, machinate, make, make a projection, make
arrangements, make do with, make up, makeup, making, maneuver, manufacture, march, marge, margin, marginate, material body,
matrix, mature, methodize, microfilm, mind, mint, modality, mode, model, mold, molding, monochromatic film,
mood, mopboard, morale, motion-picture film,
mould, mount, mounting, nadir, nature, negative, note, operate, order, organic structure, organism, organization, organize, originate, orthochromatic
film, pack, pack the deal,
panchromatic film, paragraph, patch together,
pattern, patterning, person, photographic paper,
phrase, physical body,
physique, picture
frame, piece together, plan, plan ahead, plate, plot, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, prefabricate, premeditate, preorder, prepare, present, printing paper,
procreate, produce, production, program, project, property, prototype, purfle, purl, put, put in words, put together, put
up, put-up job, quality,
ragged edge, raise,
rationalize,
rear, rhetorize, rig, rim, roll, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run up, sash, scaffolding, schedule, schema, schematize, scheme, sculpt, sculpture, selvage, set, set off, set out, set up,
setting, setup, sew up, shape, shaping, shell, shoemold, shore, side, sideline, significant form,
skeleton, skirt, sole, soma, somatotype, sort, sound film, sound track,
sound-on-film, soundstripe, spawn, spirit, spirits, stack the cards,
stamp, state, state of mind, streak, strike out, stripe, structure, structuring, style, suchness, support, system, systematize, tailor, tectonics, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, texture, thermoform, think out, think
up, tissue, toe, tone, torso, trap, trim, tripack, trunk, turn, type, underframe, vamp up, vehicle, vein, verge, wainscot, wangle, warp and woof, way, weave, web, whomp up, window case, window
frame, word, work, work out, work up, write