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frame | twist |

As nouns the difference between frame and twist

is that frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline while twist is twist.

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 ----

    twist

    English

    (wikipedia twist)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A twisting force.
  • Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
  • * 1906 , (Edith Nesbit), (The Railway Children) Chapter 8
  • Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
    "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
    "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist'—not a hard one—but still a ' twist .
  • * Addison
  • Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
  • The form given in twisting.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist .
  • The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
  • A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:
  • the thrid / By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, / That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, / With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine [...].
  • A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
  • * 2005 , Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
  • Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist , and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
  • A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
  • * 1899 , Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods
  • But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
  • An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, 1987, October 23, Caryn James, Movie Review: No Man's Land (1987), New York Times
  • , passage=Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist , but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}
  • A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See
  • * {{quote-news, 1997, April 22, Jennifer Dunning, Surviving It All, Dismissals, Tours and Balanchine, New York Times
  • , passage=She taught him to do the twist , having learned it herself from an Alvin Ailey dancer at Jacob's Pillow. }}
  • A rotation of the body when diving.
  • A sprain, especially to the ankle.
  • (obsolete) A twig.
  • (Chaucer)
    (Fairfax)
  • (slang) A girl, a woman.
  • * 1990 , (w, Miller's Crossing), 01:08:20
  • (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
  • (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
  • A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
  • The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
  • (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
  • Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
  • To join together by twining one part around another.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 15
  • "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted , so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
  • To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Twist it into a serpentine form.
  • To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
  • * Waller
  • longing to twist bays with that ivy
  • * T. Burnet
  • There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
  • (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
  • Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
  • To turn a knob etc.
  • To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
  • * Exodus 23:8
  • And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous.
  • To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
  • To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
  • * 1913 , (George Bernard Shaw), Act V
  • Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
  • * 1901 , (Henry Lawson), Joe Wilson's Courtship
  • Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
    ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
  • (of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • * 1926 , , He
  • My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
  • To cause to rotate.
  • * 1911 , (John Masefield), Jim Davis Chapter 8
  • The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
  • To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
  • To coax.
  • * 1932 , Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
  • "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"
  • (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
  • Antonyms

    : stick; stay

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from the noun and verb "twist") * French twist * get one's knickers in a twist * intertwist * nontwist * overtwist * plot twist * retwist * round the twist * supertwist * twist and turn * twist around * twist drill * twist grip * twist in the wind * twist of fate * twist off * twist someone's arm * twist someone's balls * twist up * twistable * twister * twistfree * twistical * twistwood * twisty * undertwist * untwist

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----