frame

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

frames

V_ing/Gerund

framing

V_ed/pp

framed

1.
(transitive)To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
2.
(transitive)To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
3.
(transitive)To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
4.
(transitive)To put together the structural elements of (a constructed object such as a building).
Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
5.
(transitive)To place (a picture such as a painting or photograph) inside a decorative border.
6.
(transitive)To position visually within a fixed boundary.
The director frames the fishing scene very well.
7.
(transitive)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.
They have framed this sentencing bill as not caring about victims; we have to frame it as preventing government overreach.
8.
(transitive)(transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
Đồng nghĩa: frame up, put up, set up
9.
(dialectal, intransitive)(intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
10.
(dialectal, intransitive)To move.
11.
(intransitive, obsolete)To proceed; to go.
12.
(tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

frames

1.
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
2.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
3.
A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
Đồng nghĩa: carriage
4.
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
5.
A piece of photographic film containing an image.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift 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 film projector shows many frames in a single second.
6.
A context for understanding or interpretation.
In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
7.
(crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
8.
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
9.
(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
10.
(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.
11.
(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
12.
(horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame

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frame upput upset upcarriagefit upconspire to incriminate fit up

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen, from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (to profit, avail, advance), from *frammjan, from Proto-Germanic *framjaną (to further, promote, perform), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (front, forward).