Frame \Frame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Framed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Framing.] [OE. framen, fremen, to execute, build, AS.
   fremman to further, perform, effect, fr. fram strong,
   valiant; akin to E. foremost, and prob. to AS. fram from,
   Icel. fremja, frama, to further, framr forward, G. fromm
   worthy, excellent, pious. See Foremost, From, and cf.
   Furnish.]
   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.
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   2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose;
      in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something
      false.
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            How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind
            of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
                                                  --I. Watts.
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   3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to
      adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
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            And frame my face to all occasions.   --Shak.
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            We may in some measure frame our minds for the
            reception of happiness.               --Landor.
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            The human mind is framed to be influenced. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
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   4. To cause; to bring about; to produce. [Obs.]
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            Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds. --Shak.
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   5. To support. [Obs. & R.]
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            That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   6. To provide with a frame, as a picture.
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   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.
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	Frame \Frame\, v. i.
   1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. [Obs.]
      --Judg. xii. 6.
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   2. To proceed; to go. [Obs.]
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            The bauty of this sinful dame
            Made many princes thither frame.      --Shak.
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	Frame \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.
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            These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
            Almighty! thine this universal frame. --Milton.
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   2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build
      of a person.
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            Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. --Shak.
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            No frames could be strong enough to endure it.
                                                  --Prescott.
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   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.
      (f) a pair of glasses without the lenses; that part of a
          pair of glasses that excludes the lenses.
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   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.
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   5. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution;
      system; as, a frameof government.
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            She that hath a heart of that fine frame
            To pay this debt of love but to a brother. --Shak.
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            Put your discourse into some frame.   --Shak.
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   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
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   7. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.]
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            John the bastard
            Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. --Shak.
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   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.
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   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.
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	frame
     n 1: a structure supporting or containing something [syn: framework,
           framing]
     2: one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip
        of film used in making movies
     3: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo
        studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the
        spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body,
         physical body, material body, soma, build, figure,
         physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, form,
         flesh]
     4: a period of play in baseball during which each team has a
        turn at bat [syn: inning]
     5: the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a
        frame for the body of an animal [syn: skeletal system, skeleton,
         systema skeletale]
     6: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its
        shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" [syn: skeleton,
         skeletal frame, underframe]
     v 1: enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture" [syn: frame
          in, border]
     2: enclose in a frame, as of a picture
     3: take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!";
        "The innocent man was framed by the police" [syn: ensnare,
         entrap, set up]
     4: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put
        it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
        language" [syn: redact, cast, put, couch]
     5: draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy"
        [syn: compose, draw up]
     6: construct by fitting or uniting parts together [syn: frame
        up]

	

	415 Moby Thesaurus words for "frame":
   Platonic form, Platonic idea, adjoin, aesthetic form, anatomy,
   angle, appendicular skeleton, archetype, architectonics,
   architecture, arrange, arrangement, art form, assemble, attitude,
   axial skeleton, backing, bank, base, baseboard, basement,
   bear false witness, bearing, befringe, beget, bent, bibliofilm,
   bind, bipack, black-and-white film, block out, blueprint, board,
   body, body-build, bones, border, bordure, bound, box in, brand,
   breed, brew, brim, bring forth, bring into being, brink, brow,
   build, building, bushing, cabal, cadre, calculate, call into being,
   carcass, cartridge, carve, case, casement, casing, cast, character,
   characteristic, characteristics, chassis, chisel, clay, clod,
   coast, coin, collude, color film, color negative film, complexion,
   complot, compose, composition, compound, conceive, concert,
   concoct, condition, configuration, conformation, connive, conspire,
   constituents, constitution, construct, construction, context,
   contrive, cook up, corpus, couch, couch in terms, countermine,
   counterplot, crasis, create, creation, cue, cut, cut out, dado,
   design, develop, devise, dharma, diathesis, discover, disposition,
   doorframe, dope, draft, draw up, dream up, dry plate, edge, edging,
   efform, elaborate, elevate, embody in words, emulsion, enclose,
   enframe, engender, engineer, entrap, erect, ethos, evolve,
   exoskeleton, express, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication,
   false witness, fashion, fashioning, featheredge, fiber, figuration,
   figure, film, finagle, finesse, fix, flange, flesh, foot, footing,
   forecast, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation,
   formularize, formulate, found, foundation, frame of mind, frame up,
   frame-up, framework, framing, fringe, fudge together, generate,
   genius, genre, get up, getup, give being to, give expression to,
   give rise to, give words to, grain, habit, hatch, hatch a plot,
   hatch up, heart, hem, hew, hue, hulk, humor, humors, ilk,
   impression, improvise, indite, infrastructure, inner form, intend,
   intrigue, invent, keel, kind, knead, knock out, labellum, labium,
   labrum, lap, lattice, latticework, lay a plot, lay out, lay plans,
   layout, ledge, lick into shape, limb, limbus, line, lip, list,
   machinate, make, make a projection, make arrangements,
   make do with, make up, makeup, making, maneuver, manufacture,
   march, marge, margin, marginate, material body, matrix, mature,
   methodize, microfilm, mind, mint, modality, mode, model, mold,
   molding, monochromatic film, mood, mopboard, morale,
   motion-picture film, mould, mount, mounting, nadir, nature,
   negative, note, operate, order, organic structure, organism,
   organization, organize, originate, orthochromatic film, pack,
   pack the deal, panchromatic film, paragraph, patch together,
   pattern, patterning, person, photographic paper, phrase,
   physical body, physique, picture frame, piece together, plan,
   plan ahead, plate, plot, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive,
   predesign, prefabricate, premeditate, preorder, prepare, present,
   printing paper, procreate, produce, production, program, project,
   property, prototype, purfle, purl, put, put in words, put together,
   put up, put-up job, quality, ragged edge, raise, rationalize, rear,
   rhetorize, rig, rim, roll, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run up,
   sash, scaffolding, schedule, schema, schematize, scheme, sculpt,
   sculpture, selvage, set, set off, set out, set up, setting, setup,
   sew up, shape, shaping, shell, shoemold, shore, side, sideline,
   significant form, skeleton, skirt, sole, soma, somatotype, sort,
   sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spawn, spirit,
   spirits, stack the cards, stamp, state, state of mind, streak,
   strike out, stripe, structure, structuring, style, suchness,
   support, system, systematize, tailor, tectonics, temper,
   temperament, tendency, tenor, texture, thermoform, think out,
   think up, tissue, toe, tone, torso, trap, trim, tripack, trunk,
   turn, type, underframe, vamp up, vehicle, vein, verge, wainscot,
   wangle, warp and woof, way, weave, web, whomp up, window case,
   window frame, word, work, work out, work up, write

	

	frame
     
        1.  A data link layer "packet" which contains the
        header and trailer information required by the physical
        medium.  That is, network layer packets are encapsulated
        to become frames.
     
        See also datagram, encapsulation, packet, Maximum
        Transmission Unit.
     
        2.  (language implementation) See activation
        record.
     
        3.  One complete scan of the active area of a
        display screen.  Each frame consists of a number N of
        horizontal scan lines, each of which, on a computer display,
        consists of a number M of pixels.  N is the vertical
        resolution of the display and M is the horizontal
        resolution.  The rate at which the displayed image is updated
        is the refresh rate in frames per second.
     
        (2000-10-07)

	

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