Meaning of frameful | Babel Free

Definitions

A quantity that fills a frame (any sense).

Examples

“In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe.”

“Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it.”

“And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.”

“Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign.”

“The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths.”

“After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section.”

“The two of them walk along the wall gazing at the framed objects- which could, I suppose, be called collage-work. I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples.”

“Each box contains ten light wooden frames which enclose the honeycomb so that you can lift it out one frameful at a time.”

“Included in the decoder is a memory or store which retains a frameful of information sent by the computer and displays it continuously on the TV.”

“Archer has a frameful on his wall. One of them, Nora holding the tambourine aloft, has a touch of the woman at her completest and noblest.”

CEFR level