Frame vs Temper - What's the difference?

Frame is a synonym of temper.

As nouns the difference between frame and temper

is that frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline while temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

As a verb temper is

to moderate or control.

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 ----

temper

English

(wikipedia temper)

Alternative forms

* tempre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}

State of mind.

* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

the temper of mortar

(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

* Fuller

The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

to keep one's temper

* Alexander Pope

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

* Ben Jonson

Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

the temper of iron or steel

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

* Macaulay

The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.

(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Derived terms

* lose one's temper * short temper * short-tempered

Synonyms

* (tendency of mood) disposition

Coordinate terms

* (Heat treatment) quenching

Verb

(en verb)

To moderate or control.

Temper your language around children.

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.

* Dryden

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

To spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

(obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.

* Spenser

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3

You fools! I and my fellows

Are ministers of fate: the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs

Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume;

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

* Bancroft

Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.

* Otway

Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

* Byron

But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.

* Addison

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

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