Definition of Frame

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Definition of Frame

Frame

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

To cause; to bring about; to produce.

To support.

To provide with a frame, as a picture.

To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

To proceed; to go.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.

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Frame Quotations

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Vera Wang

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
Annie Leibovitz

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

Frame Translations

frame in Afrikaans is raamwerk
frame in Dutch is in een lijst zetten, inlijsten, vatten
frame in Finnish is kehys
frame in German is Gestell, Rahmen
frame in Italian is comporre, orbita, formare, telaio, intelaiatura
frame in Norwegian is karm, skjelett, narre, struktur, innramme, ramme
frame in Portuguese is quadro
frame in Spanish is marco, formar, unir, armadura, bastidor, chasis
frame in Swedish is karm, inrama, ram

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