Mate vs Frame - What's the difference?
mate | frame |
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
(especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
(colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
(colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male
(nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. (w, Boatswain's Mate), (w, Gunner's Mate), Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
(nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
(nautical) A first mate.
A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate'', ''plumber's mate ); sometimes an apprentice.
The other member of a matched pair of objects.
A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
* Milton
To match, fit together without space between.
To copulate.
To pair in order to raise offspring
To arrange in matched pairs.
To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
To marry; to match (a person).
* Shakespeare
To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
To fit (objects) together without space between.
(aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate
To confuse; to confound.
(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.
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, 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]
As a verb mate
is .As a noun frame is
frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline.mate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ). More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- I'm going to the pub with a few mates .
- He's my best mate .
- Excuse me, mate , have you got the time?
- ''I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate .
- Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * fellow * friend * buddy * sir * partner * See alsoDerived terms
(Derived terms) * bedmate * bunkmate * cellmate * classmate * crewmate * flatmate * floormate * housemate * mateship * office mate * roommate * shipmate * teammate * tourmate * workmateVerb
- The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
- If she be mated with an equal husband.
- There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
- I, / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * couple * match * pairAntonyms
* (aerospace) demateDerived terms
* matingEtymology 2
From (etyl) verb maten, (etyl) mater, from (etyl) noun .Verb
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
SeeAnagrams
* * * * ----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.