frame
Pronunciation
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.
Verb
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- 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.