Frame vs Bind - What's the difference?

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Frame is a related term of bind.

As nouns the difference between frame and bind

is that frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline while bind is that which binds or ties.

As a verb bind is

to tie; to confine by any ligature.

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.

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.

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.}}

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.

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.

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 ----

bind

English

Verb

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

They that reap must sheaf and bind .

To cohere or stick together in a mass.

''Just to make the cheese more binding

* (rfdate) (Mortimer)

clay binds by heat.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

These are the ties that bind .

To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

to bind''' grain in bundles; to '''bind a prisoner.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

Gravity binds the planets to the sun.

Frost binds the earth.

* (rfdate) Job xxviii. 11.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing.

* (rfdate) Luke xiii. 16.

Whom Satan hath bound , lo, these eighteen years.

To couple.

(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

to bind''' the conscience; to '''bind''' by kindness; '''bound''' by affection; commerce '''binds nations to each other.

* (rfdate) (Milton)

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.

(legal) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

(legal) To place under legal obligation to serve.

to bind''' an apprentice; '''bound out to service

To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

to bind a belt about one

to bind a compress upon a wound.

(archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.

to bind up a wound.

(archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.

certain drugs bind the bowels.

To put together in a cover, as of books.

The three novels were bound together.

(computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

* 2008 , Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell (page 33)

We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".

* 2009 , Robert Pickering, Beginning F# (page 123)

You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj

Synonyms

* fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain * bandage, dress * restrain, restrict, obligate * * indenture

Derived terms

* bind over - to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. * bind to - to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. * bind up in - to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

Derived terms

* bindweed

Noun

(en noun)

That which binds or ties.

A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

the Maróczy Bind

Synonyms

* See also

References

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Anagrams

* English irregular verbs ----