Word: frame Part of Speech: noun 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯m/ 1. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. Example: Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls. 2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. Example: 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. Example: These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame. 3. 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. Example: His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame. Example: There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […] 4. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material. Example: 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. Example: The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame. 5. A piece of photographic film containing an image. Example: 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. Example: A film projector shows many frames in a single second. 6. A context for understanding or interpretation. Example: In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed. Example: Interests groups compete to have their preferred frames shape policy discussions. 7. A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person. Example: Didn't you ever wonder this whole thing may be a frame? 8. A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted. 9. An independent chunk of data sent over a network. 10. 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. 11. The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration. Example: 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. 12. A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants. Example: a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame 13. The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change. 14. The outer circle of a cancellation mark. 15. A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second. 16. An individually scrollable region of a webpage. Labels: Internet 17. An inning. Labels: slang 18. Any of certain machines built upon or within framework. Labels: UK, dated Example: a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame 19. Frame of mind; disposition. Labels: dated Example: to be always in a happy frame Example: 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. 20. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. Labels: obsolete Example: John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. 21. A stage or location in a video game. Labels: dated Example: 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. Example: 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. 22. A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets. 23. A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. 24. A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins. 25. Clipping of page frame or memory frame. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 26. The carcass of a poultry bird with most of its flesh removed, used for making broth. Example: a chicken frame