different between frame vs limit

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?m?t/
• (India) IPA^(key): /?l?m?t/, /?l?mt/
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin l?mes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”).

Noun

limit (plural limits)

1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

   There are several existing limits to executive power.

   Two drinks is my limit tonight.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 21:

     It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:

     Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]

   • 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:

     At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.

2. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

   The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.

3. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

   Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.

4. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

   Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit

   Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism

5. (poker) Fixed limit.
6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

   the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
7. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
8. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
9. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
10. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
12. (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

Synonyms

• (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Limit

Translations

Adjective

limit (not comparable)

1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

See also

• bound
• function

Etymology 2

From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin l?mit? (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from l?mes; see noun.

Verb

limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)

1. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

   • [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.

3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

Synonyms

• (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• milit.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?m?t]

Noun

limit m

1. limit

Related terms

• limita
• limitní
• limitovat

Further reading

• limit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• limit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Etymology

From English limit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?limit]
• Hyphenation: li?mit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

limit (plural limitek)

1. limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)

Declension

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Limit.

Noun

lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. boundary
2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

Declension

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.mit/

Noun

limit

1. frequency
2. closeness; compactness; density

Synonyms

• kalimitan

Derived terms

• malimit