Mount vs Frame - What's the difference?
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A mountain.
(label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
* Bible, Jer. vi. 6
(label) A bank; a fund.
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
(label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
To move upwards.
#(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
#(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
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#(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:to mount the Trojan troop
# To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
# To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
#*Bible, (w) li. 53
#*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
#* (1743-1809)
#*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
(lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
# To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
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To increase in quantity or intensity.
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(lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
(lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
# To have sexual intercourse with someone.
(lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
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(lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
(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 proper noun mount
is .As a noun frame is
frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline.mount
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).Noun
(en noun)- Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
Usage notes
* Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".Derived terms
* (abbreviation)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.Noun
(en noun)- The rider climbed onto his mount .
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts .
Verb
(en verb)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* dismount * demount * unmountExternal links
* * *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.