different between frame vs hem

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 1

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /h?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

Interjection

hem

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Noun

hem (plural hems)

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
   • January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269

     his morning hems

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.

Derived terms

• hem and haw

Translations

See also

• ahem
• haw

Etymology 2

From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian ????? (k?amel, “to press, wring”), Russian ??? (kom, “lump”).

The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjan?, or alternatively derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /h?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

Noun

hem (plural hems)

1. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
2. A rim or margin of something.
3. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

Derived terms

• touch the hem of someone's garment

Translations

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

1. (intransitive) (in sewing) To make a hem.
2. (transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
3. (transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.

   A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.

Derived terms

• hemmer
• hem in

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.

Pronoun

hem

1. Obsolete form of 'em.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe

     And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.

   • 1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne

     For eyther of hem mayntened.

   • 1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English

     ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.

   • Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.

   • Except we make hem such.

   • 1605, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, Eastward Ho

     They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.

Anagrams

• Meh, meh

Bislama

Alternative forms

• hemi

Etymology

From English him.

Pronoun

hem

1. Third person singular pronoun:
   1. he; she
   2. him; her
   3. his; her
   4. his; hers

Catalan

Verb

hem

1. first-person plural present indicative form of haver

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hem, from Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Pronoun

hem

1. (personal) Third-person singular, masculine, objective: him.

2. (personal) The tagger in a game of tag: it.

Inflection

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hem
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

hem (plural hemek)

1. (biochemistry) heme (component of hemoglobin)

Declension

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hem, related to eimr (“vapor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

hem n (genitive singular hems, nominative plural hem)

1. thin layer of ice

   Synonym: skæni

Declension

Verb

hem (weak)

1. first-person singular present indicative of hemja
2. second-person singular imperative of hemja

References

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch hemd, from Middle Dutch hemde, hemede, from Old Dutch *hemithi, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. shirt, an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

   Synonym: kemeja

Etymology 2

From English heme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. (biochemistry) The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen; heme.

Etymology 3

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hêm

Interjection

hêm

1. Used to express furious, etc.

Further reading

• “hem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hem/, [h???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em/, [?m]

Interjection

hem

1. eh?, well well! (expressing surprise)

Related terms

• ehem

References

• hem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of hi
2. dative of het

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of si (“they”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heom, from Proto-Germanic *himaz, masculine and neuter dative plural of *hiz. Compare þem.

Pronoun

hem (nominative he)

2. Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9–11.

   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

   • c. 1539, Murdoch Nisbet, The New Testament

     He prayis hem to lyue releg[ious] lyff[is] and to luk waraly for the cummyng of the lord.

3. (reflexive) themselves

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, heom, heon, hoem, hom, home, huem, hum, ham, hame, him, hym, em, am, ?am

Descendants

• English: 'em, hem
• Yola: aam

See also

References

• “hem, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English hemm. See English hem for more.

Noun

hem

1. hem (edge of cloth or garment)
2. edge, boundary

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, hemn, hemne

Descendants

• English: hem
• Scots: hem, heme

References

• “hem, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hem

1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Northern Kurdish

Conjunction

hem

1. and

See also

• herwiha
• û

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hem

1. imperative of hemme

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Noun

h?m ?

1. home, house
2. hamlet

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hêem, heim
  • Dutch: heem, heim (possibly from German), -em, -hem, -gem (in placenames)
    • Afrikaans: heim
  • Limburgish: heim

Further reading

• “h?m”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?m/, [?h??m]

Noun

h?m m

1. Alternative form of h?m

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Pijin

Alternative forms

• hemi

Etymology

From English him

Pronoun

hem

1. he/she/it (third-person singular pronoun)

See also

Portuguese

Interjection

hem

1. Rare form of hein.

Romanian

Etymology

From French hème.

Noun

hem n (plural hemuri)

1. heme

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heim < heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Adverb

hem

1. home; to one's home

Noun

hem n

1. a home; one's dwelling place, as in a house or a more general geographical place; the abiding place of the affections.
2. a home; an institution

Declension

Related terms

• hemma

Derived terms

References

• hem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Persian ??? (ham).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hem/

Adverb

hem

1. and also

Conjunction

hem

1. both; and