A Quick and Simple Dictionary

frame

1. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
2. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
3. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
4. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
5. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
9. Verb.  (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
10. Verb.  (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to add a decorative border.
11. Verb.  (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
12. Verb.  (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
13. Verb.  (transitive) (criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
14. Verb.  (intransitive, dialectal) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
15. Verb.  (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
16. Noun.  The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
17. Noun.  The structure of a person's body.
18. Noun.  A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
19. Noun.  A piece of photographic film containing an image.
20. Noun.  A context for understanding or interpretation.
21. Noun.  (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
22. Noun.  (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over the wires of a network.
23. Noun.  (context, 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.
24. Noun.  (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
25. Noun.  (film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
26. Noun.  (internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
27. Noun.  ((baseball) , (slang) ) An inning.