Definitions for Frame

Frame frame

Spelling: [freym]
IPA: /freɪm/

Frame is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Frame (aefmr).

Definitions for Frame

noun

  1. a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
  2. 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.
  3. a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique:
  4. a structure for admitting or enclosing something:
  5. Usually, frames. (used with a plural verb) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.
  6. form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.
  7. a particular state, as of the mind:
  8. Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.
  9. 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 (0.033) second. Compare field (def 19).
  10. Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.
  11. 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.
  12. Pool. rack1 (def 3).
  13. Baseball. an inning.
  14. Slang. a frame-up.
  15. enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.
  16. the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.
  17. 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.
  18. a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production:
  19. Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.
  20. Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.
  21. in frame, Shipbuilding. (of a hull) with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.

verb (used with object)

  1. to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.
  2. to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem:
  3. to conceive or imagine, as an idea.
  4. Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc.
  5. to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.
  6. to give utterance to:
  7. to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.
  8. to fashion or shape:
  9. to shape or adapt to a particular purpose:
  10. Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.
  11. to adjust (film) in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.
  12. to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.
  13. Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.

verb (used without object)

  1. Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.
  2. Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.

Origin of Frame

before 1000; 1910-15 for def 8; 1920-25 for def 25; (v.) Middle English framen to prepare (timber), Old English framian to avail, profit; cognate with Old Norse frama to further, Old High Ger

Examples for Frame

“For your $30 million Ruschas and $60 million Rothkos, you need to see the quality of the frame and brushstrokes,” he says.

In addition to lacking compelling personal narratives, the “pro-choice” frame is itself a loser.

The mosaic border to the frame is quite unique in its design.

The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.

And he finished his sentence with a practical illustration of his frame of mind.

They were still working on moviolas and working one frame at a time.

I had there a tiny mirror, about two-thirds of which had fallen from its frame.

It must be admitted that this frame is finished with great care.

FDR was also careful to frame the unprecedented government action as something common sense and essentially pragmatic.

And, once they set out to get you—God, how they can frame things!

Word Value for Frame
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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