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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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fancy
English
Alternative forms
- fant’sy, phancie, phancy, phansie, phansy, phant’sy (all obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæn.si/
- Rhymes: -ænsi
Etymology 1
From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía), from ??????? (phantáz?, “to render visible”), from ?????? (phantós, “visible”), from ????? (phaín?, “to make visible”); from the same root as ??? (phôs, “light”). Doublet of fantasia, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.
Noun
fancy (plural fancies)
- The imagination.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 100-103,[1]
- […] But know that in the soul
- Are many lesser faculties, that serve
- Reason as chief; among these Fancy next
- Her office holds […]
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall
- In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove; / In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
- 1861, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “A New Counterblast” in Atlantic Monthly, December 1861, p. 700,[2]
- Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 100-103,[1]
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- Synonyms: conception, thought, idea
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[3]
- How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,
- Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
- Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
- With them they think on?
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- Synonym: impression
- 1650, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d, 2nd edition, London, 1653, Epistle Dedicatory, pp. 2-3,[4]
- When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker […]
- 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 13th edition, London, 1764, §148, p. 222, [5]
- I have always had a Fancy, that Learning might be made a Play and Recreation to Children […]
- A whim.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim
- Love or amorous attachment.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:predilection
- The object of inclination or liking.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 1,[7]
- For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
- To fit your fancies to your father’s will;
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 1,[7]
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- Synonyms: hobby; see also Thesaurus:hobby
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fan
- 1830, Thomas De Quincey, “Review of Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. by J.H. Monk, D.D.” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28, No. 171, September 1830, p. 446, footnote,[8]
- […] at a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the Fancy, on a copy occurring, not one of the company but ourself knew what the mystical title-page meant.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- 18th century, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, cited in Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755,[9]
- London-pride is a pretty fancy, and does well for borders.
- 18th century, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, cited in Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755,[9]
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- a French fancy; a fondant fancy; cream fancies
- (obsolete) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 2,[10]
- [He] sung those tunes to the overscutch’d huswifes that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 2,[10]
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- 1970, Marta Weigle, Follow my fancy: the book of jacks and jack games (page 22)
- When you have mastered plainsies, the regular jack game, and have learned all the rules, you will be ready to use this part of the book. A fancy is a variation of plainsies which usually requires more skill than plainsies does.
- 2002, Elizabeth Dana Jaffe, Sherry L. Field, Linda D. Labbo, Jacks (page 26)
- When you get good at jacks, try adding a fancy. A fancy is an extra round at the end of a game. It makes the game a little harder. Jack Be Nimble, Around the World, or Black Widow are some fancies.
- 1970, Marta Weigle, Follow my fancy: the book of jacks and jack games (page 22)
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fancy (comparative fancier, superlative fanciest)
- Decorative.
- Synonyms: decorative, ornate
- Antonyms: plain, simple
- Of a superior grade.
- Synonym: high-end
- Executed with skill.
- (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
- Synonym: highfalutin
- Antonym: simple
- (obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
Derived terms
- fancy man
Translations
Descendants
- ? German: fancy
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: fancy
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: fancy
Adverb
fancy (not comparable)
- (nonstandard) In a fancy manner; fancily.
Etymology 2
From Middle English fancien, fantasien, fantesien, from Old French fantasier, from the noun (see above)).
Verb
fancy (third-person singular simple present fancies, present participle fancying, simple past and past participle fancied)
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- (Britain) would like
- Synonym: feel like
- (Britain, informal) To be sexually attracted to.
- Synonym: (US) like
- (dated) To imagine, suppose.
- If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- He fancied he was welcome, because those around him were his kinsmen.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
- I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- Synonym: imagine
- he whom I fancy, but can ne'er express
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- 1973, American Pigeon Journal (page 159)
- I would recommend this little book very highly to anyone who fancies pigeons, novices and veterans alike.
- 1973, American Pigeon Journal (page 159)
Derived terms
- fancy man
- fancy one's chances
- fancy that
Translations
See also
- fantasy
- fancy man
- fancypants
- fancy woman
References
Further reading
- Fancy in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English fancy. Doublet of Fantasie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fænsi/
Adjective
fancy (not comparable)
- (colloquial, fashion) fancy
Declension
Further reading
- “fancy” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English fancy.
Adjective
fancy (indeclinable)
- fancy
References
- “fancy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English fancy.
Adjective
fancy (indeclinable)
- fancy
References
- “fancy” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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