frame
/fɹeɪ̯m/ sustantivo A2En español: estructura, armazón, bastidor, trasto
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. · Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- 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.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material. · The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image. · A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
- A context for understanding or interpretation. · In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
- A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
Plural frames
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-grey, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind.
“You’ll have the night to think over your conduct in and come to a better frame of mind.
She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantès prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.
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