A closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A cold frame.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A frame of reference.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A general state or condition: The news put me into a better frame of mind.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A general structure or system: the frame of government.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To fit, as for a specific end; make suitable or conformable; adapt; adjust.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To construct by fitting and uniting together the several parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts: as, to frame a house, a door, or a machine.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In general, to bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
[⟨ frame, n.] To surround or provide with a frame, as a picture; put into a frame, as a piece of cloth.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In ship-building, to erect and adjust the frames of (a vessel) in place above the keel on the building-slip.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
adjective
Having a wood frame .
from Free Scrabble Dictionary
verb-intransitive
Archaic To go; proceed.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Obsolete To manage; contrive.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
To proceed; to go.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-transitive
Informal To make up evidence or contrive events so as to incriminate (a person) falsely.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Informal To prearrange (a contest) so as to ensure a desired fraudulent outcome; fix: frame a prizefight.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To arrange or adjust for a purpose: The question was framed to draw only one answer.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To build by putting together the structural parts of; construct: frame a house.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To conceive or design: framed an alternate proposal.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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