frame
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frammjan, from Proto-Germanic *framjaną (“to further, promote, perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
Cognate with Low German framen (“to commit, effect”), Danish fremme (“to promote, further, perform”), Swedish främja (“to promote, encourage, foster”), Icelandic fremja (“to commit”). More at from.
Inflected forms:
form: frames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: framing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: framed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: framed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
frame my face to all occasions
We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
The human mind is framed to be influenced.
gloss: To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements,
Warring within our breaſts for regiment,
Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:
gloss: To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
As for America’s constitution, speaking as the court’s originalist-in-chief, all that mattered was what its words meant when it was framed.
gloss: To put together the structural elements of (a constructed object such as a building).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
gloss: To place (a picture such as a painting or photograph) inside a decorative border.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To position visually within a fixed boundary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The director frames the fishing scene very well.
Round glasses would frame your face perfectly.
In the dining room, Savonarola chairs frame a burlwood table, while in the primary bedroom, flea-market art mingles with a Chinese Art Deco rug.
gloss: To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How would you frame your accomplishments?
The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
They have framed this sentencing bill as not caring about victims; we have to frame it as preventing government overreach.
gloss: Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
gloss: To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
gloss: To move.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
examples: An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not "frame off" rewarded my perseverance.
gloss: To proceed; to go.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The beautie of this ſinfull Dame, / Made many Princes thither frame, / To ſeeke her as a bedfellow, / In maryage pleaſures, playfellow:
gloss: To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
pos: verb
gloss: To strengthen; refresh; support.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: At last with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame
gloss: To execute; perform.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth.
The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office.
gloss: To cause; to bring about; to produce.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
gloss: To profit; avail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To fit; accord.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame, thou must be fain to cast them out.
gloss: To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Derived words: beframe
enframe
framable
frameable
frame out
full-frame
inframe
misframe
outframe
reframe
unframe
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