Definition of frame

"frame" in the noun sense

1. frame

the framework for a pair of eyeglasses

2. frame

a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film

3. human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh

alternative names for the body of a human being

"Leonardo studied the human body"

"he has a strong physique"

"the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

4. inning, frame

baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat

5. frame

a single drawing in a comic strip

6. frame

an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently

7. frame of reference, frame

a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning

8. skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

9. skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

"the building has a steel skeleton"

10. framework, frame

a structure supporting or containing something

11. frame, framing

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"

12. frame

one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided

"frame" in the verb sense

1. frame, frame in, border

enclose in or as if in a frame

"frame a picture"

2. frame

enclose in a frame, as of a picture

3. ensnare, entrap, frame, set up

take or catch as if in a snare or trap

"I was set up!"

"The innocent man was framed by the police"

4. frame, redact, cast, put, couch

formulate in a particular style or language

"I wouldn't put it that way"

"She cast her request in very polite language"

5. frame, compose, draw up

make up plans or basic details for

"frame a policy"

6. frame, frame up

construct by fitting or uniting parts together

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Quotations for frame

I frame no hypotheses. [ Sir Isaac Newton ]

The withered frame, the ruined mind.
The wreck by passion left behind,
A shrivelled scroll, a scattered leaf,
Seared by the autumn blast of grief! [ Byron ]

Oh! never breathe a dead one's name,
When those who loved that one are nigh;
It pours a lava through the frame
That chokes the breast and fills the eye. [ Eliza Cook ]

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame.
The power of grace, the magic of a name. [ Campbell ]

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment.
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. [ William Shakespeare ]

Into these ears of mine,
These credulous ears, he poured the sweetest words
That art or love could frame. [ Beaumont ]

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. [ William Shakespeare ]

A person that is beautiful and vicious, is a fine picture set in a scurvy frame. [ Proverb ]

Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. [ Granville ]

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems! [ Southey ]

Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. [ Gay ]

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light. [ Emerson ]

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. [ Blair ]

Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. [ Bacon ]

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. [ Bacon ]

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Art thou beautiful? Live, then, in accordance with the curious work and frame of the creation, and let the beauty of thy person teach thee to beautify thy mind with holiness, the ornament of the beloved of God. [ Penn ]

Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]

frame in Scrabble®

The word frame is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters frame:

FRAME
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word frame

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In frame

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frame in Words With Friends™

The word frame is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters frame:

FRAME
(57)
FRAME
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word frame

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In frame

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Words within the letters of frame

2 letter words in frame (8 words)

3 letter words in frame (8 words)

4 letter words in frame (6 words)

5 letter words in frame (1 word)

frame + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving frame

Shorter words in frame

me

am ram

Longer words containing frame

airframe airframes

bedframe bedframes

coldframe

doorframe doorframes

framed misframed

framed reframed

framed unframed

frameless

framemaker framemakers

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timeframe timeframes

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windowframe windowframes