frame
pronunciation
How to pronounce frame in British English:
UK [freɪm]
How to pronounce frame in American English:
US [freɪm]
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- Noun:
- a structure supporting or containing something
- one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
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- Verb:
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- formulate in a particular style or language
- draw up the plans or basic details for
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
Word Origin
- frame
- frame: [OE] Frame comes from the preposition from, whose underlying notion is of ‘forward progress’. This was incorporated into a verb framian in Old English times, which meant ‘make progress’. Its modern meaning started to develop in the early Middle English period, from ‘prepare, make ready’, via the more specific ‘prepare timber for building’, to ‘construct, shape’ (the Middle English transitive uses may have been introduced by the related Old Norse fremija).The noun frame was derived from the verb in the 14th century. Incidentally, if the connection between from and frame should seem at first sight far-fetched, it is paralleled very closely by furnish, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic source as from.=> from
- frame (v.)
- Old English framian "to profit, be helpful, avail, benefit," from fram (adj., adv.) "active, vigorous, bold," originally "going forward," from fram (prep.) "forward; from" (see from). Influenced by related Old English fremman "help forward, promote; do, perform, make, accomplish," and Old Norse fremja "to further, execute." Compare German frommen "avail, profit, benefit, be of use." Sense focused in Middle English from "make ready" (mid-13c.) to "prepare timber for building" (late 14c.). Meaning "compose, devise" is first attested 1540s. The criminal slang sense of "blame an innocent person" (1920s) is probably from earlier sense of "plot in secret" (1900), perhaps ultimately from meaning "fabricate a story with evil intent," which is first attested 1510s. Related: Framed; framing.
- frame (n.)
- c. 1200, "profit, benefit, advancement;" mid-13c. "a structure composed according to a plan," from frame (v.) and in part from Scandinavian cognates (Old Norse frami "advancement"). In late 14c. it also meant "the rack." Meaning "sustaining parts of a structure fitted together" is from c. 1400. Meaning "enclosing border" of any kind is from c. 1600; specifically "border or case for a picture or pane of glass" from 1660s. The meaning "human body" is from 1590s. Of bicycles, from 1871; of motor cars, from 1900. Meaning "separate picture in a series from a film" is from 1916. From 1660s in the meaning "particular state" (as in Frame of mind, 1711). Frame of reference is 1897, from mechanics and graphing; the figurative sense is attested from 1924.
- frame (adj.)
- (of buildings), "made of wood," 1790, American English, from frame (n.).
Example
- 1. However , that 's probably the wrong interpretative frame .
- 2. Make the subject of your picture fill the frame .
- 3. These values are encapsulated in a digital signature of 76 bytes per frame .
- 4. A more complex frame like this one required eleven hours .
- 5. Components from other manufacturers are then added to the frame .