half-framen.adj.
/ˈhɑː(f)freɪm/, U.S. /ˈhæ(f)ˌfreɪm/ A. n.
1. Printing. A compositor's frame designed to bear a single pair of type-cases. Now historical.
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1781 Catal. Sundry Printing Materials 7 Two half Frames.
1834 Essex Standard 14 Nov. (advt.) A number of whole and half frames, a quantity of printing ink, [etc.].
1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) vi. 43 Frames of a smaller size than the half frames are made with racks which contain ten of the half cases mentioned in the last chapter.
1932 W. Atkins Art & Pract. Printing I. ii. 9 The old style open wooden frames are classified as—Half frame, which is simply a stand to hold a pair of cases [etc.].
2. In plural. Spectacles having frames which surround only half of the lenses; frames of this type; spec. spectacles with frames around the lower half of the lenses, used for reading.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other types of spectacles
half-moon glasses1607
half-moon spectacles1607
blinkers1732
temple-spectacles1762
reading glass1853
distance glasses1864
horn spectacles1893
bifocal1899
trifocal1899
horn-rims1927
harlequin spectacles1940
harlequin glasses1945
library frame1948
aviator1951
library glasses1959
library spectacles1962
multifocals1962
wire-rim1968
1952 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 14 Oct. b5/1 (advt.) Wear frameless glasses for evening wear..half frames for the office..full frames for sportswear!
1968 ‘J. Hudson’ Case of Need i. i. 10 ‘Call me,’ Sanderson said, peering over his half frames.
1977 Times 21 May 24/1 (advt.) Graded lenses and graded colour frames in metal... As above, but with half-frames only.
1997 Independent 19 Aug. ii. 9/2 I..eventually chose a pair of non-designer titanium half-frames which, without varifocals, came to two-thirds of the price.
2005 Winchester (Va.) Star 19 Mar. d3/5 There are ‘flexies’, ‘gels’, Ben Franklin half frames, glasses that can be purchased in bulk, and hand-painted pairs to be guarded with your life.
B. adj.
1. Designating spectacles having frames which surround only half of the lenses; spec. designating spectacles with frames around the lower half of the lenses, used for reading.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > types of spectacles
steel-rimmeda1400
steelbowed1606
young1667
near-sighted1796
trifocal1826
steel-bow1834
pantoscopic1836
window glass1885
bifocal1888
horn-rimmed1894
pebbled1928
thick-lensed1946
single-vision1962
wire-rim1968
wire-frame1977
Lennon1984
1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 14 May 23723/1 The forms desired are the same as those used in the United States—the half frame, the cornered, and the flat.
1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf ii. 17 Strange half-frame spectacles that he peered over abstractedly.
1997 R. H. Jones Warped Rods & Squeaky Reels ii. 28 Half-frame glasses perched on the end of his nose, head tilted well back, he was squinting slowly at the back of his hand.
2017 @BrooksLamonte 5 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 18 July 2019) Sophomore year will be the year of the half frame glasses, wish me luck.
2. Photography. Designating a format of photograph that is half the usual size for a given type of film, or a half-size photograph in such a format. Of a camera: designed to take half-size photographs, typically such that one normal landscape orientation 35mm film window is occupied by two smaller portrait orientation photographs. Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [adjective] > types of film
thirty-five millimetre1666
soft?1863
pushable1871
unexposed1892
lenticulated1925
prescreened1929
lenticular1934
pan1940
subminiature1977
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > film > types of film
film negative1871
roll1889
roll film1895
reversal film1929
colour film1930
lenticular film1934
pan1940
test strip1940
flat film1950
integral tripack1953
lith1955
overhead transparency1966
1932 Amer. Photogr. July 419/1 The full..area suits me better than the half-frame area which is so popular now.
1949 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 24/3 A newly announced adapter kit..permits pictures to be made in four different formats—full-frame..half-frame..2¼-inches square, and Bantam size.
1961 Colour Photogr. vi. 249/3 The normal 20-exposure cassette gives 40 half-frame exposures and the 36-exposure cassette gives 72 so that each colour transparency would cost less than 6d.
1967 A. Flowers in L. Deighton London Dossier 170 Buy one of the half-frame cameras such as the Olympus Pen D2 or the Canon Dial.
2010 P. Smith Just Kids 225 Judy Linn loaded up her small half-frame camera and showed me how to use it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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half-frame
half-frame n.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 56 Half frames, small composing frames made to hold one pair of cases only.
half-frame
half-frame n. (a) (in pl.) reading-spectacles consisting of only the lower half of the frames and lenses; also in sing. attrib.; (b) Photogr. half the standard 35 mm. picture size.
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1961 Colour Photogr. vi. 249/3 The normal 20-exposure cassette gives 40 half-frame exposures and the 36-exposure cassette gives 72 so that each colour transparency would cost less than 6d.
1967 A. Flowers in L. Deighton London Dossier 170 Buy one of the half-frame cameras such as the Olympus Pen D2 or the Canon Dial.
1968 ‘J. Hudson’ Case of Need i. i. 10 ‘Call me,’ Sanderson said, peering over his half frames.
1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf ii. 17 Strange half-frame spectacles that he peered over abstractedly.
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