Definitions for frames

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frames frame

Spelling: [freym]

IPA: /freɪm/

Frames is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in frames (aefmrs).

Definitions for frames

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 frames

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 frames

First and foremost, I think he needs to reset and reframe the basic story of where this country is right now economically.

And pro-choice activists have repeatedly failed to reframe them as issues of discrimination against women.

We need to reframe our policy debates around social values and political choice.

A sustained effort, and not just a one-stop speech, could reframe the race.

It made the job of reset and reframe that much harder, because some mistrusted his motives.

But perhaps it is time to reframe our thinking on the issue?

In 1541 he was back at Geneva with an understood commission to reframe the religious and social life of the city.

The Obama administration and Democrats are moving quickly to reframe the issue and move new policy.

You know, films are great when they reframe reality and cause conversations and dialogue.

And her response was an attempt to put Democrats on the defensive and reframe the “war on women.”