Company vs Frame - What's the difference?
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A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
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# (label) The entire crew of a ship.
# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
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, title=Obama goes troll-hunting (label) Social visitors or companions.
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, chapter=5, title= (label) Companionship.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
(archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
(archaic) To associate.
* Bible, Acts i. 21
(obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
(obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
(obsolete) To execute; perform.
(obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To profit; avail.
(obsolete) To fit; accord.
(obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
* John Lyly
* Shakespeare
* Landor
* I. Taylor
To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* I. Watts
Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
To position visually within a fixed boundary.
To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
(criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
(intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
(dialectal) To move.
(obsolete) To proceed; to go.
* Shakespeare
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
* Milton
The structure of a person's body.
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
* , chapter=10
, title= A piece of photographic film containing an image.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
A context for understanding or interpretation.
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
(bowling) 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.
(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
(film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
(baseball, slang) An inning.
(engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
frame of mind; disposition
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
* Shakespeare
A stage or level of a video game.
* 1982 , Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]
As nouns the difference between company and frame
is that company is a team; a group of people who work together professionally while frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline.As a verb company
is (archaic|transitive) to accompany, keep company with.company
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(wikipedia company)Noun
The Dust of Conflict, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Synonyms
* corporationDerived terms
* a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
- Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
- it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
- (Spenser)
- (Bishop Hall)
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Verb
(fram)- At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame . ? Spenser.
- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ? Shakespeare.
- Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
- When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame , thou must be fain to cast them out. ? Tyndale.
- I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
- frame my face to all occasions
- We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
- The human mind is framed to be influenced.
- He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
- How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
- Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
- An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ? E. Brontë.
- The beauty of this sinful dame / Made many princes thither frame .
Synonyms
* (conspire to incriminate) fit upDerived terms
* beframe * enframe * framable, frameable * inframe * outframe * unframeNoun
(en noun)- These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: 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 stocking frame'''; a lace '''frame'''; a spinning '''frame
- to be always in a happy frame
- 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.