frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: frames
Etymology: From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).
Senses: examples: text: Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
glosses: The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
examples: text: The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare,
Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps,
Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen,
Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:
text: These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
examples: text: His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
text: There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXXIV:
text: The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi
synonyms: carriage
glosses: A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
examples: text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
glosses: A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
examples: text: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
text: A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
glosses: A piece of photographic film containing an image.
examples: text: In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
text: Interests groups compete to have their preferred frames shape policy discussions.
ref: 2020 May, Kelcie Ralph, Ian Girardeau, “Distracted by “distracted pedestrians”?”, in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, volume 5:
glosses: A context for understanding or interpretation.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.
ref: 1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports, page 712:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
examples: a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
topics: broadcasting
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
film
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
television
video-games
qualifier: animation
glosses: A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
glosses: An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An inning.
examples: a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
examples: text: to be always in a happy frame
text: And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, in Wuthering Heights:
glosses: Frame of mind; disposition.
examples: text: John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
examples: text: When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.
ref: 1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]
text: Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.
ref: 1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)
text: The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.
ref: 1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)
topics: video-games
glosses: A stage or location in a video game.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: "reading frame"
glosses: A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
Derived terms: A-frame
airframe
balloon frame
bedframe
bed frame
bed-frame
beer frame
B-frame
bow frame
climbing frame
coframe
cold frame
composing frame
counting frame
dataframe
D-frame
diamond frame
doorframe
door-frame
door frame
drawing frame
drop frame
feature control frame
flash frame
frame-alignment recovery time
frame and panel
frame ball
frame bridge
frame buffer
framebuffer
framecel
frame challenge
frame counter
frame dragging
frame drum
frame drummer
framee
frame fuck
frame-fuck
frameful
frame grabber
frame harp
frame house
frame in
frameless
framelet
frameline
frame lock
frame number
frame of mind
frame of reference
frame one
framepack
frame perfect
frame-perfect
frame per second
frame problem
frameproof
framer
frame rail
frame rate
framerule
frame saw
framesaw
frameset
frameshift
frameshifted
frameshifter
frameshifting
frameskip
framesmith
framestone
frame story
frame table
frame tale
frame time
frame up
frame-up
framewise
framework
framing hammer
framing square
freeze-frame
freeze frame
gallows frame
genoframe
goalframe
grinding frame
ground frame
half-frame
headframe
hogframe
hogging frame
hoist frame
I-frame
inertial frame
inertial frame of reference
interframe
in the frame
intraframe
invincibility frame
jumbo frame
keyframe
key frame
Kripke frame
lever frame
main frame
mainframe
midframe
mindframe
multiframe
nonframe
open reading frame
out of frame
P-frame
picture frame
pit frame
playframe
printing frame
projective frame
reading frame
reference frame
re-frame
resistance frame
restframe
retouching frame
shafthead frame
smear frame
space frame
spinning frame
stack frame
star frame
stern frame
still frame
stocking frame
stretching frame
subframe
superframe
swingframe
time frame
time-frame
tin frame
tool frame
underframe
videoframe
walking frame
water frame
window frame
wire frame
wireframe
wire-frame
Zimmer frame
zimmer frame