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Frame   /freɪm/   Listen
noun
Frame  n.  
1.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure. "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame."
2.
The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. "Some bloody passion shakes your very frame." "No frames could be strong enough to endure it."
3.
A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched; as:
(a)
The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
(b)
(Founding) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.
(c)
The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
(d)
A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.
(e)
(Hort.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
(f)
(Print.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
(g)
A pair of glasses without the lenses; that part of a pair of glasses that excludes the lenses.
4.
(Mach.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
5.
Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. "She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother." "Put your discourse into some frame."
6.
Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. Same as frame of mind
7.
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. (Obs.) "John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies."
8.
In games:
(a)
In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points.
(b)
In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.
Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon, Cant, etc.
Frame building or Frame house, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. (U.S.) Frame level, a mason's level.
Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity.


verb
Frame  v. t.  (past & past part. framed; pres. part. framing)  
1.
(Arch. & Engin.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
2.
To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. "How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years."
3.
To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. "And 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."
4.
To cause; to bring about; to produce. (Obs.) "Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds."
5.
To support. (Obs. & R.) "That on a staff his feeble steps did frame."
6.
To provide with a frame, as a picture.
7.
To manufacture false evidence against (an innocent person), so as to make the person appear guilty of a crime. The act of framing a person is often referred to as a frame-up.


Frame  v. i.  
1.
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. (Obs.)
2.
To proceed; to go. (Obs.) "The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame."





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"Frame" Quotes from Famous Books



... adorne, But tempted, with how innocent a scorne. How Epidemick errors by thy Play Were laught out of esteeme, so purged away. How to each sence thou so didst vertue fit, That all grew vertuous to be thought t' have wit. But this was much too narrow for thy art, Thou didst frame governments, give Kings their part, Teach them how neere to God, while just they be; But how dissolved, stretcht forth to Tyrannie. How Kingdomes, in their channell, safely run, But rudely overflowing are undone. Though vulgar spirits ...
— The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes - Volume I. • Beaumont and Fletcher
... Constitutional convention at Wyandotte, they owe the modicum of justice secured by that document. With her knitting in hand, she sat there alone through all the sessions, the only woman present, watching every step of the proceedings, and laboring with members to so frame the constitution as to make all citizens equal before the law. Though she did not accomplish what she desired, yet by her conversations with the young men of the State, she may be said to have made the idea of woman suffrage ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
... was this for my trembling frame! The door closed more tightly than ever before. Not one word could I utter. I left the room, to find my old resort in the grove, to weep bitter tears of disappointment. But widely different was this burden, ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... the bake-stone, originally of the material to which it owed its name, but at a very early date constructed of iron, with the old appellations retained as usual, was the universal machinery for baking, and was placed on the Branderi, an iron frame which was fixed on the top of the fireplace, and consisted of iron bars, with a sliding or slott bar, to shift according ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt
... that occasion, that I had wished to put its virtue to a frequent test; nor did the ale on subsequent trials belie the good opinion which I had at first formed of it. After each visit which I made to the public-house, I found my frame stronger and my mind more cheerful than they had previously been. The landlord appeared at all times glad to see me, and insisted that I should sit within the bar, where, leaving his other guests to be attended to by a niece of his ...
— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow


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