Framename

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

frameverb詞源 1/ˈfɹeɪ̯m/

• 1

  To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

  • I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
  • frame my face to all occasions
• 2

  To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

  • Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements, Warring within our breaſts for regiment, Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:
• 3

  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.
  • How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
• 4

  To put together the structural elements of (a constructed object such as a building).

  • Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
• 5

  To place (a picture such as a painting or photograph) inside a decorative border.

• 6

  To position visually within a fixed boundary.

  • The director frames the fishing scene very well.
  • Round glasses would frame your face perfectly.
• 7

  To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.

  • How would you frame your accomplishments?
  • The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
• 8

  criminologyhuman-scienceslawConspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.

  • The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.

framenoun詞源 2/ˈfɹeɪ̯m/

• 1

  The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

  • Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
• 2

  Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.

  • The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare, Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps, Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen, Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.
  • These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame.
• 3

  A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.

  • His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
  • There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]
• 4

  A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  • The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
• 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.
  • A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
• 6

  A context for understanding or interpretation.

  • In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
  • Interests groups compete to have their preferred frames shape policy discussions.
• 7

  A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.

  • Didn't you ever wonder this whole thing may be a frame?
• 8

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• page frame or memory frame