frame
enclose in or as if in a frame
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,124 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,350 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- enclose in or as if in a frame also: frame in, border frame a picture
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap also: ensnare, entrap, set up I was set up!The innocent man was framed by the police
- formulate in a particular style or language also: redact, cast, put, couch I wouldn't put it that wayShe cast her request in very polite language
- make up plans or basic details for also: compose, draw up frame a policy
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together also: frame up
noun
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
frame in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Marius de Tregars stood within the frame of the open door.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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His great frame seemed closer knit at sixty than it had been at thirty.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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Tabitha, comfortably conscious of only forty years and an iron frame, shrugged her shoulders and smiled grimly.
The three sisters [Night watches, Part 6.] · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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Toward sunset my frame was struck as with an arrow by the sensations of hunger on passing a cook's-shop.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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For an instant his whole frame appeared petrified, and the tide and current of his life frozen up in thick-ribbed ice.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1