different between frame vs draft

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)

1. (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

2. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together 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.

   • He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.

4. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.

7. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.

9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
10. (intransitive, dialectal) 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).
13. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
14. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
16. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
    • 1531, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

18. (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)

1. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
3. 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.

4. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

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.

6. A context for understanding or interpretation.

7. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
8. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
9. (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.
10. (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.

    a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame

11. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
12. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
13. (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
14. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
15. (baseball, slang) An inning.
16. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

    a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame

17. (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.

18. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
19. (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.

20. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
21. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
22. (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)

1. (snooker) frame
2. (construction) frame

Anagrams

• afrem, farme, rem af

German

Verb

frame

1. inflection of framen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English frame.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?ejm/, /?f?ejm/, /?f?ej.mi/

Noun

frame m (plural frames)

1. (networking) frame (independent chunk of data)
2. (Internet) frame (individually scrollable region of a webpage)
3. frame (individual image emitted by a projector or monitor)

English

Etymology

A phonetic spelling of draught.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???ft/

  Rhymes: -??ft

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d?æft/

  Rhymes: -æft

Noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

1. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2. Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
3. An act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

   to drink at a draft

   She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

5. A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.)
6. Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
7. (nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull; depth of water drawn by a vessel.
8. An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.

   I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.

   His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.

9. A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
10. A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
11. Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

    He left the country to avoid the draft.

12. (politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
13. (sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
14. (rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
15. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
16. (possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

    using oxen for draft   shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft

17. (possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
18. (possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.

    he cast his net, which brought him a very great draft

19. A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

Synonyms

• (mouthful of liquid): swig; see also Thesaurus:drink

Derived terms

• air draft
• backdraft
• deep draft
• downdraft
• updraft

Translations

Verb

draft (third-person singular simple present drafts, present participle drafting, simple past and past participle drafted)

1. (transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
2. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
3. To write a law.
4. (transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

5. To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
6. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

   The calves were drafted from the cows.

7. (transitive, sports) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

   After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.

8. (transitive, intransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.

9. To draw out; to call forth.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

10. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

Translations

Adjective

draft (not comparable)

1. (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

   I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.

2. Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.

   A Clydesdale is a draft horse.

Translations

Related terms

• draw

Further reading

• draft in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• draft in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English draw

Noun

draft n (definite singular draftet, indefinite plural draft or drafter, definite plural drafta or draftene)

1. nautical chart

Usage notes

Although this word is in common use, it is noted as a misnomer, see references.

Synonyms

• sjøkart
• kystkart

References

• “draft” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English draw

Noun

draft n (definite singular draftet, indefinite plural draft, definite plural drafta)
draft f (definite singular drafta, indefinite plural drafter, definite plural draftene)

1. nautical chart

Usage notes

Although this word is in common use, it is noted as a misnomer, see Bokmål references.

Synonyms

• sjøkart
• kystkart

References

• “draft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

draft m (plural drafts)

1. draft (in sports)

Yola

Noun

draft

1. Alternative form of draught