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noun, verb, framed, fram⋅ing.| 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, esp. a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame. |
| 4. | a structure for admitting or enclosing something: a window frame. |
| 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: an unhappy frame of 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 second. Compare field (def. 19). |
| 10. | Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time. |
| 11. | Bowling.
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| 12. | Pool. rack 1 (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.
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| 18. | a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, esp. as used in textile production: drawing frame; spinning frame. |
| 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. |
| 22. | to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct. |
| 23. | to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem: to frame a new constitution. |
| 24. | to conceive or imagine, as an idea. |
| 25. | Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc. |
| 26. | to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture. |
| 27. | to give utterance to: Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest. |
| 28. | to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully. |
| 29. | to fashion or shape: to frame a bust from marble. |
| 30. | to shape or adapt to a particular purpose: to frame a reading list for ninth graders. |
| 31. | Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest. |
| 32. | to adjust (film) in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture. |
| 33. | to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight. |
| 34. | Archaic. to direct, as one's steps. |
| 35. | Archaic. to betake oneself; resort. |
| 36. | Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something. |
frame (frām)
n.
Something composed of parts fitted and joined together.