Meaning of frame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Framework, frame.
3. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
4. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
5. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
6. A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
7. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
8. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
9. A context for understanding or interpretation.
10. A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
11. A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
12. An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
13. A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
14. The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
15. A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
16. The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
17. The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
18. A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
19. An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
    Internet
20. An inning.
    slang
21. Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
    UK, dated
22. Frame of mind; disposition.
    dated
23. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
    obsolete
24. A stage or location in a video game.
    dated
25. A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
26. A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
27. A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
28. Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

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Examples

“Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.”

“The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare, Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps, Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen, Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.”

“These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame.”

“His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.”

“There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]”

“The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.”

“He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.”

“The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.”

“12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.”

“A film projector shows many frames in a single second.”

“In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.”

“Interests groups compete to have their preferred frames shape policy discussions.”

“Didn't you ever wonder this whole thing may be a frame?”

“In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.”

“a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame”

“a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame”

“to be always in a happy frame”

“And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.”

“John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.”

“When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.”

“Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.”

“The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.”

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