<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.</li><li>a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.</li><li>a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame.</li><li>a structure for admitting or enclosing something: a window frame.</li><li>Usually frames. (used with a plural verb) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.</li><li>form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.</li><li>Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.</li><li>Television. a single traversal by the electron beam of all the scanning lines on a television screen.</li><li>In the U.S. this is a total of 525 lines traversed in 1/30 (0.033) second.</li><li>Compare field (def 19).</li><li>Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.</li><li>Bowling. one of the ten divisions of a game.</li><li>one of the squares on the scorecard, in which the score for a given frame is recorded.</li><li>Pool. rack 1 (def 3).</li><li>Baseball. an inning.</li><li>Slang. a frame-up.</li><li>enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.</li><li>the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.</li><li>Nautical. any of a number of transverse, riblike members for supporting and stiffening the shell of each side of a hull.</li><li>any of a number of longitudinal members running between web frames to support and stiffen the shell plating of a metal hull.</li><li>a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production: spinning frame.</li><li>drawing frame; spinning frame.</li><li>Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.</li><li>Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.</li><li>in frame, Shipbuilding. (of a hull) with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.</li><li>to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem: to frame a new constitution.</li><li>to conceive or imagine, as an idea.</li><li>Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc.</li><li>to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.</li><li>to give utterance to: Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest.</li><li>to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.</li><li>to fashion or shape: to frame a bust from marble.</li><li>to shape or adapt to a particular purpose: to frame a reading list for ninth graders.</li><li>Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.</li><li>to adjust (film) in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.</li><li>to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.</li><li>Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.</li><li>Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.</li></ul>