SkyfireDict

frame   (TTS Sound)

The noun frame has 11 senses

• frame -- (the framework for a pair of eyeglasses)


• frame -- (a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film)


• 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")


• inning, frame -- ((baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat)


• frame -- (a single drawing in a comic strip)


• frame -- (an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently)


• frame of reference, frame -- (a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning)


• skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale -- (the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal)


• skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe -- (the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton")


• 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")


• frame -- (one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided)

The verb frame has 6 senses

• frame, frame in, border -- (enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture")


• frame -- (enclose in a frame, as of a picture)


• 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")


• 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")


• frame, compose, draw up -- (make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy")


• frame, frame up -- (construct by fitting or uniting parts together)