Frame vs Board - What's the difference?
frame | board |
(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]
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
A device (, switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
A committee that manages the business of an organization, , a board of directors .
(uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
(nautical) The side of a ship.
* Dryden
(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
(ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
(archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
* Milton
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
* Totten
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
* Spectator
(nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
To cover with boards or boarding.
* Cowper
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
As nouns the difference between frame and board
is that frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline while board is a relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making or board can be (basketball|informal) a rebound.As a verb board is
to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.frame
English
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.
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 ----board
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bord, (etyl) , from (etyl) . (wikipedia board)Noun
(en noun)- Each player starts the game with four counters on the board .
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
- Fruit of all kinds / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- to bind a book in boards
Derived terms
* poster board * aboard * above board * across the board * baseboard * blackboard * board game * boardroom * boardwalk * board of advirsors * board of directors * board of trustees * bodyboard, body board, body-board * boogieboard, boogie board, boogie-board * bulletin board * chalkboard * checkerboard * chessboard * chipboard * circuit board * clapboard * clapperboard * corkboard, cork-board * dartboard * dashboard * drawing board * duckboard * emery board * floorboard, floor board, floor-board * ironing board * keyboard * off board * on board * particle board * plasterboard * protoboard * room and board * sandwich board * skateboard * skirting board * snowboard * spine board * surfboard * sounding board * thumbboard * outboard * weatherboard * whiteboardSee also
* batten * beam * lath * plank * pole * slab * veneerVerb
(en verb)- It is time to board the aircraft.
- You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
- to board one's horse at a livery stable
- We board in the same house.
- Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure
- to board a house
- the boarded hovel