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.
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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.
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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.}}
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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.
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A context for understanding or interpretation.
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(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
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model Alternative forms
* modell
Noun
( en noun)
A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
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A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
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* Shakespeare
- I had my father's signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.
* Addison
- You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.
A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
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A style, type, or design.
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The structural design of a complex system.
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A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Engineers of a different kind
, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
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(logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
(logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.
A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.
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(manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
* Shakespeare
- Thou seest thy wretched brother die, / Who was the model of thy father's life.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* abstract model
* animal model
* arbitrage pricing model
* business model
* causal model
* commercial model
* computer model
* conceptual model
* data model
* database model
* Document Object Model
* economy model
* enterprise architecture model
* entity-relationship model
* fashion model
* fetish model
* fitness model
* glamour model
* information model
* late model
* mark to model
* mathematical model
* mental model
* model aircraft
* model checking
* model organism
* model solution
* model theory
* modelizer
* modelly
* multimodel
* off-model
* plamodel
* production model
* relational model
* role model
* runway model
* scale model
* scientific model
* spokesmodel
* supermodel
* waterfall model
* water-line model
* view model
Related terms
* mode
* module
Adjective
( -)
Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
* (rfdate), Blackwood's Magazine , volume 289, page 525:
- At our approach the animals made so much noise that the owners of the hut peered round the door to see what was the matter; outwardly rather less model than the farm, there appeared two ancient Basques, emblematically black-bereted, gnarled [...]
* 1898 , John Thorburn, The St. Andrew's Society of Ottawa: 1846-1897 : sketch , page 40:
- [...] from the land of your origin, because you demand the claims of those who believe it more model than yours, [...]
* 1932 , Nora Fugger, James Austin Galaston (translator), The Glory of the Habsburgs: the Memoirs of Princess Fugger , page 35:
- Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts.
* 1934 , Charles Ryle Fay, Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932 , page 143:
- [...] and we press with special severity on one small country whose agriculture is as model as is her way of rural life.
* 1956 , Stephen Rynne, All Ireland , page 54:
- True, it is an untidy county; the farmhouses are much more model' than the farms (when we reach Antrim we shall find that the farms are more ' model than the farmhouses).
* 1968 , American County Government , volume 33, page 19:
- But not all the exchanges were as model as the sergeant. Some of the exchangees showed a rigidity and reluctance to adapt.
* 1999 , Michael D. Williams, Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program , page 113:
- It is as model as you can get.
* 2002 , Uma Anand Segal, A framework for immigration: Asians in the United States , page 308:
- While Asians have been perceived as the model minority, it is increasingly clear that some Asian groups are more model than are others, and even within these model groups, a division exists [...]
* 2010 , Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life , page 140:
- All were neat and well kept which added to the sense that they were more model than real.
Synonyms
* (worthy of being a model) ideal
Verb
To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
- She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.
To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
- They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.
To make a miniature model of.
- He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
To create from a substance such as clay.
- The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
To make a or models.
To be a model of any kind.
- The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.
Synonyms
* modelise, US modelize
Related terms
* remodel
* modeler
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