different between skirt vs frame

English

Etymology

From Middle English skyrte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtij?. Doublet of shirt. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skørt (“skirt”), Swedish skört (“hem of a jacket”), Norwegian skjørt (“skirt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: skû(r)t, IPA^(key): /sk??t/
• (US) enPR: skûrt, IPA^(key): /sk?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

skirt (plural skirts)

1. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
   • c. 1907, O. Henry, The Purple Dress:

     "I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"

2. The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
   • 1885, Ada S. Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice, Chapter XI:

     The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

     “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
     Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
3. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
   • July 27, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian no. 118

     A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

4. A petticoat.
5. (derogatory, slang) A woman.
   • 1931, Robert E. Howard, Alleys of Peril:

     "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt."

     "What d'ya mean?" I asked, taking a pull at the bottle.

     "Well, 'ere's us, two red-blooded 'e-men, takin' orders from a lousy little frail, 'andin' the swag h'over to 'er, and takin' wot she warnts to 'and us, w'en we could 'ave the 'ole lot. Take this job 'ere now--"

6. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2:

     here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
9. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

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

Usage notes

• (article of clothing): It was formerly common to speak of “skirts” (plural) rather than “a skirt”. In some cases this served to emphasize an array of skirts of underskirts, or of pleats and folds in a single skirt; in other cases it made little or no difference in meaning.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?to)
• ? Korean: ??? (seukeoteu)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sgiort

Translations

Verb

skirt (third-person singular simple present skirts, present participle skirting, simple past and past participle skirted)

1. To be on or form the border of.

2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     An enormous man and woman (it was early-closing day) were stretched motionless, with their heads on pocket-handkerchiefs, side by side, within a few feet of the sea, while two or three gulls gracefully skirted the incoming waves, and settled near their boots.
3. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
4. To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Kirst, stirk

Middle English

Noun

skirt

1. Alternative form of skyrte

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)