area English
Noun
( wikipedia area)
(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
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Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
, magazine=( American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch
, passage=Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.}}
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(British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
- (Charles Dickens)
(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal
, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.}}
(slang) Genitals.
Derived terms
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* area code
* area-denial
* area of influence
* area rug
* area rule
* Broca's area
* combined statistical area
* common area
* danger area
* disaster area
* equal-area
* free trade area
* geographical area
* goal area
* gray area
* grey area
* lateral area
* metropolitan area
* metropolitan area network
* notification area
* outside gross area
* penalty area
* Planck area
* prohibited area
* protected area
* rest area
* restricted area
* Ruhr Area
* Schengen Area
* safe area
* second moment of area
* service area
* specific leaf area
* staging area
* surface area
* terminal control area
* Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
* ventral tegmental area
* Wernicke's area
Related terms
* areal
See also
* Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
* Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares
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frame English
Verb
( fram)
(obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
- 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.
(obsolete) To execute; perform.
- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ? Shakespeare.
(obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
* Shakespeare
- Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
(obsolete) To profit; avail.
(obsolete) To fit; accord.
- 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.
(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
- I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
* Shakespeare
- frame my face to all occasions
* Landor
- We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
* I. Taylor
- The human mind is framed to be influenced.
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
- He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
* I. Watts
- How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
(criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
(intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
(dialectal) To move.
- An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ? E. Brontë.
(obsolete) To proceed; to go.
* Shakespeare
- The beauty of this sinful dame / Made many princes thither frame .
Synonyms
* (conspire to incriminate) fit up
Derived terms
* beframe
* enframe
* framable, frameable
* inframe
* outframe
* unframe
Noun
( en noun)
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
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Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
* Milton
- These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame .
The structure of a person's body.
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A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
* , chapter=10
, title= 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.}}
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A piece of photographic film containing an image.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- 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.
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A context for understanding or interpretation.
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(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.
- a stocking frame'''; a lace '''frame'''; a spinning '''frame
frame of mind; disposition
- to be always in a happy frame
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
* Shakespeare
- John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
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]
- 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.
Quotations
* {{quote-book
, passage=...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame ...
, page=17
, title=An Account of the Growth of Deism in England
, author=William Stephens
, year=1696}}
Derived terms
* frame ball
* frame house
* frame in
* frame of mind
* frame of reference
* frameset
* frame story
* frame up
* framework
* framing hammer
* framing square
* inertial frame of reference
* freeze frame
* subframe
* time frame
* window frame
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