1.  frame(n = noun.artifact) - the framework for a pair of eyeglasses;
is a kind of framework
has parts: eyeglasses, glasses, specs, spectacles
has particulars: chase
Derived forms verb frame₄, verb frame₁

2.  frame(n = noun.artifact) - a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film;
is a kind of exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture

3.  frame(n = noun.body) anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma - 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"
is a kind of body, organic structure, physical structure
is a part of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, homo, human, human being, man
has particulars: person, juvenile body, adult body, male body, female body

4.  frame(n = noun.time) inning - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat;
is a kind of division, part, section
is a part of period of play, play, playing period
has parts: top, top of the inning, bottom, bottom of the inning

5.  frame(n = noun.communication) - a single drawing in a comic_strip;
is a kind of drawing
is a part of cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies, strip

6.  frame(n = noun.communication) - an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently;
is a kind of application, application program, applications programme

7.  frame(n = noun.cognition) frame of reference - a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning;
is a kind of system, system of rules
has particulars: vocabulary

8.  frame(n = noun.body) skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale - the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal;
is a kind of system
is a part of musculoskeletal system
has parts: skeletal structure
has particulars: endoskeleton, exoskeleton

9.  frame(n = noun.artifact) skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe - the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"
is a kind of supporting structure
is a part of aircraft, building, edifice, ship
has particulars: chassis, hoop

10.  frame(n = noun.artifact) framing - a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror; "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"
is a kind of framework
Derived forms verb frame₁, verb frame₂

11.  frame(n = noun.act) - one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided;
is a kind of division, part, section
is a part of bowling

1.  frame(v = verb.contact) border, frame in - enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture"
is one way to close in, enclose, inclose, shut in
Derived forms noun frame₁₀, noun frame₁, noun framing₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  frame(v = verb.stative) - enclose in a frame, as of a picture;
is one way to confine, enclose, hold in
Derived forms noun frame₁₀, noun framer₁, noun framing₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  frame(v = verb.social) ensnare, entrap, set up - take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
is one way to cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
Sample sentences: They want to frame the prisoners

4.  frame(v = verb.communication) cast, couch, put, redact - formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
is one way to articulate, formulate, give voice, phrase, word
Derived form noun frame₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something PP

5.  frame(v = verb.cognition) compose, draw up - make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy"
is one way to plan
Derived forms noun framer₂, noun framing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  frame(v = verb.creation) frame up - construct by fitting or uniting parts together;
is one way to build, construct, make
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  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. [1913 Webster]

2.  To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. [1913 Webster]
"How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years." [1913 Webster]

3.  To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. [1913 Webster]
"And frame my face to all occasions." [1913 Webster]
"We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness." [1913 Webster]
"The human mind is framed to be influenced." [1913 Webster]

4.  To cause; to bring about; to produce. [1913 Webster]
"Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds." [1913 Webster]

5.  To support. [1913 Webster]
"That on a staff his feeble steps did frame." [1913 Webster]

6.  To provide with a frame, as a picture. [1913 Webster]

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. [PJC]

1.  To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. Judg. xii. 6. [1913 Webster]

2.  To proceed; to go. [1913 Webster]
"The bauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame." [1913 Webster]

2.  The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. [1913 Webster]
"Some bloody passion shakes your very frame." [1913 Webster]
"No frames could be strong enough to endure it." [1913 Webster]

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 [1913 Webster]

4.  A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc. [1913 Webster]

5.  Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. [1913 Webster]
"She that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother." [1913 Webster]
"Put your discourse into some frame." [1913 Webster]

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 [1913 Webster]

7.  Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [1913 Webster]
"John the bastard
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies." [1913 Webster]

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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

frame, n. & v.
--n.
1 a case or border enclosing a picture, window, door, etc.
2 the basic rigid supporting structure of anything, e.g. of a building, motor vehicle, or aircraft.
3 (in pl.) the structure of spectacles holding the lenses.
4 a human or animal body, esp. with reference to its size or structure (his frame shook with laughter).
5 a framed work or structure (the frame of heaven).
6 a an established order, plan, or system (the frame of society). b construction, constitution, build.
7 a temporary state (esp. in frame of mind).
8 a single complete image or picture on a cinema film or transmitted in a series of lines by television.
9 a a triangular structure for positioning the balls in snooker etc. b the balls positioned in this way. c a round of play in snooker etc.
10 Hort. a boxlike structure of glass etc. for protecting plants.
11 a removable box of slats for the building of a honeycomb in a beehive.
12 US sl. = frame-up.
--v.tr.
1 a set in or provide with a frame. b serve as a frame for.
2 construct by a combination of parts or in accordance with a design or plan.
3 formulate or devise the essentials of (a complex thing, idea, theory, etc.).
4 (foll. by to, into) adapt or fit.
5 sl. concoct a false charge or evidence against; devise a plot with regard to.
6 articulate (words).

Idiom:
frame-house a house constructed of a wooden skeleton covered with boards etc. frame of reference
1 a set of standards or principles governing behaviour, thought, etc.
2 Geom. a system of geometrical axes for defining position. frame-saw a saw stretched in a frame to make it rigid. frame-up colloq. a conspiracy, esp. to make an innocent person appear guilty.

Derivative:
framable adj. frameless adj. framer n.

Etymology:
OE framian be of service f. fram forward: see FROM

VB  plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue.

N  state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.

VB  produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

N  support, ground, foundation, base, basis, terra firma, bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib, point d'appui, pou sto, purchase footing, hold, locus standi, landing place, landing stage, stage, platform, block, rest, resting place, groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention, floor, supporter, aid, prop, stand, anvil, fulciment, cue rest, jigger, monkey, stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage, sleeper, stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger, ratlings, staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle, bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick, post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster, pediment, pedicle, pedestal, plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle, buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment, baluster, banister, stanchion, balustrade, headstone, upright, door post, jamb, door jamb, frame, framework, scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom, rung, round, step, sill, angle rafter, hip rafter, cantilever, modillion, crown post, king post, vertebra, columella, backbone, keystone, axle, axletree, axis, arch, mainstay, trunnion, pivot, rowlock, peg, tiebeam, thole pin, board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack, mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf, slab, console, counter, dresser, flange, corbel, table, trestle, shoulder, perch, horse, easel, desk, clotheshorse, hatrack, retable, teapoy, seat, throne, dais, divan, musnud, chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall, arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair, couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench, aparejo, faldstool, horn, long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair, lamba chauki, lamba kursi, saddle, pannel, pillion, side saddle, pack saddle, pommel, bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead, four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang, bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse, pillow, bolster, mat, rug, cushion, footstool, hassock, tabouret, tripod, monopod, Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules, supporting, supported, fundamental, dorsigerous, astride on, straddle.

N  edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth, jaws, chops, chaps, fauces, lip, muzzle, threshold, door, porch, portal, coast, shore, frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp, border, marginal, skirting, labial, labiated, marginated.

N  form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

N  materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

N  texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

bottle-neck frame, climbing frame, cold frame, embroidery frame, frame buffer, frame in, frame of mind, frame of reference, frame up, inertial frame, inertial reference frame, open frame, picture frame, reference frame, resistance frame, skeletal frame, spinning frame, time frame, water frame, window frame, zimmer frame