Definition of frame

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Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..

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Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture..
Framework :: Framework (n.) The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society..
Shield :: Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses..
Panel :: Panel (n.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc..
Fabric :: Fabric (v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..
Intertie :: Intertie (n.) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another..
Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..
Window :: Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening..
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening..
Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..
Joist :: "Joist (n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a..
Tenon :: Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk..
Bier :: Bier (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
Fabric :: Fabric (n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
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