frame
/fɹeɪ̯m/ verb B2- To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- 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.
- To place (a picture such as a painting or photograph) inside a decorative border.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary. · The director frames the fishing scene very well.· Round glasses would frame your face perfectly.
- 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.
- Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person. · The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
He/she/it frames · Past framed · Past participle framed · -ing form framing
Verb forms
- Base form
- frame
- He/she/it
- frames
- Past
- framed
- Past participle
- framed
- -ing form
- framing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
There was no “mahogany furniture,” but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed.
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.
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