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frame
English
Etymology
From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance, perform, promote, execute, commit, do”), from Proto-Germanic *framjan? (“to perform, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Low German framen (“to commit, effect”), Danish fremme (“to promote, further, perform”), Swedish främja (“to promote, encourage, foster”), Icelandic fremja (“to commit”). More at from.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Verb
frame (third-person singular simple present frames, present participle framing, simple past and past participle framed)
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations - Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
- (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
- (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
- 1531, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
- 1531, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
- (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
Synonyms
- (conspire to incriminate): fit up
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: frame
- ? German: framen
Translations
Noun
frame (plural frames)
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structure of a person's body; the human body.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXIV:
- There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- 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.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXIV:
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- 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.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (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.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
- a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
- (dated) Frame of mind; disposition.
- to be always in a happy frame
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:
- And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.
- (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
- (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
- 1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [2]
- When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.
- 1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [2]
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
Quotations
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- feMRA, fream
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English frame.
Pronunciation
Noun
frame n (plural frames, diminutive framepje n)
- (snooker) frame
- (construction) frame
Anagrams
- afrem, farme, rem af
German
Verb
frame
- inflection of framen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English frame.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?f?ejm/, /?f?ejm/, /?f?ej.mi/
Noun
frame m (plural frames)
- (networking) frame (independent chunk of data)
- (Internet) frame (individually scrollable region of a webpage)
- frame (individual image emitted by a projector or monitor)
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caprice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”): capo (“head”), from Latin caput + riccio (“curly”), from Latin ?ricius (“hedgehog”), or from Italian capro (“goat”). Doublet of capriccio.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /k??p?is/
Noun
caprice (plural caprices)
- An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion; a whim.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A brief romance
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that a caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- After that we cast off all allegiance to immediate, tangible, and time-touched things, and entered a fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- A disposition to be impulsive.
- (music) A capriccio.
Related terms
- capricious
Translations
French
Etymology
From Italian capriccio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.p?is/
Noun
caprice m (plural caprices)
- whim; wish
- Synonym: lubie
- tantrum
Derived terms
- capricieux
Descendants
- ? Danish: kaprice
- ? English: caprice
- ? Romanian: capriciu
Further reading
- “caprice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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