frame

Meanings

• the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
• a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
• alternative names for the body of a human being
• (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
• a single drawing in a comic_strip
• an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
• a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
• the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
• the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
• a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
  • "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"
  • "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"
• one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
• enclose in or as if in a frame
  • "frame a picture"
• enclose in a frame, as of a picture
• take or catch as if in a snare or trap
  • "The innocent man was framed by the police"
• formulate in a particular style or language
• make up plans or basic details for
  • "frame a policy"
• construct by fitting or uniting parts together

Synonyms

anatomy, bod, border, build, cast, chassis, compose, couch, draw up, ensnare, entrap, figure, flesh, form, frame in, frame of reference, frame up, framing, human body, inning, material body, physical body, physique, put, redact, set up, shape, skeletal frame, skeletal system, skeleton, soma, systema skeletale, underframe