:a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
:a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.
:a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame.
:a structure for admitting or enclosing something: a window frame.
:Usually frames. the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.
:form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.
:a particular state, as of the mind: an unhappy frame of mind.
:Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.
:Television. a single traversal by the electron beam of all the scanning lines on a television screen. In the U.S. this is a total of 525 lines traversed in 1/30 second.Compare field.
:Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.
:Bowling. one of the ten divisions of a game.one of the squares on the scorecard, in which the score for a given frame is recorded.
In this same time frame, big tech companies — the businesses at the forefront of digital innovation — have flourished, as have brands that capitalized on the power of social media engagement.
After sliding the frames back into place, the researchers settled in to watch what happened as bees tooted and how it differed from when bees quacked.
In the same time frame, the rate of new business creation has declined by half.
Here’s a garment rack option that’s a bit more of a hybrid, offering the stability and frame of a furniture piece with the portability of a modular system.
It slithered up and over the window frame and out of the house, falling to the ground below.
The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.
The woman had had two strokes and was generally in a dark frame of mind.
But confirmation of that time frame has also been hard to come by.
“For your $30 million Ruschas and $60 million Rothkos, you need to see the quality of the frame and brushstrokes,” he says.
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
There was a slight shuddering movement of his whole frame—Bob was dead.
The scarlet calico canopy was again set up over the bed, and the woven cradle, on its red manzanita frame, stood near.
Old Warrender retired to his study in a rather excited frame of mind, excusing himself on the ground of his age.
:enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.
:the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.
:Nautical. any of a number of transverse, riblike members for supporting and stiffening the shell of each side of a hull.any of a number of longitudinal members running between web frames to support and stiffen the shell plating of a metal hull.
:a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production: drawing frame; spinning frame.
:Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.
:Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.
:in frame, Shipbuilding. with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.
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framed, fram·ing.
:to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.
:to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem: to frame a new constitution.
:to conceive or imagine, as an idea.
:Informal. to incriminate through the use of false evidence, information, etc.
:to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.
:to give utterance to: Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest.
:to form or seem to form with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.
:to fashion or shape: to frame a bust from marble.
:to shape or adapt to a particular purpose: to frame a reading list for ninth graders.
:Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.
:to adjust in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.
:to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.
:Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.
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framed, fram·ing.
:Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.
:Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.