framenoun [ C ]
uk/freɪm/us/freɪm/frame noun [ C ] (BORDER)
B1 a border that surrounds and supports a picture, door, or window:
the plastic or metal structure that holds together a pair of glasses
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- A picture frame often has bevelled edges.
- This door won't shut properly. I think the frame must be out of true.
- The painting was presented in a gilt picture frame.
- She painted the window frames with great care so that no paint got onto the glass.
- She wears glasses with tortoiseshell frames.
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Frames & structures
- armature
- assembly
- bezel
- carcass
- clothes hanger
- clothes horse
- coat hanger
- construction
- framework
- gantry
- hanger
- honeycomb
- infrastructure
- matrix
- shell
- skeleton
- stand
- structural
- structure
- substructure
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frame noun [ C ] (STRUCTURE)
B2 the basic structure of a building, vehicle, or piece of furniture that other parts are added onto:
UK US rack a wooden or plastic triangle used to put the balls into position at the start of a game such as snooker
the size and shape of someone's body:
C2 the way someone thinks or feels about something at a particular time:
a set of ideas or facts accepted by a person that explains their behaviour, opinions, or decisions:
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- The opera singer's 104-kilo frame has earned him the epithet of 'Man Mountain' in the press.
- The frame needs to be strong enough to support the engine assembly .
- He has a runner's wiry frame.
- It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
- Although it was old, the frame of the bed was in good condition.
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Frames & structures
- armature
- assembly
- bezel
- carcass
- clothes hanger
- clothes horse
- coat hanger
- construction
- framework
- gantry
- hanger
- honeycomb
- infrastructure
- matrix
- shell
- skeleton
- stand
- structural
- structure
- substructure
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frame noun [ C ] (GAME)
a period of play in some games, such as snooker:
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Snooker, pool & billiards
- baize
- billiards
- break
- cue
- cue ball
- pool
- pot
- rack
- shoot
- snooker
- triangle
frame noun [ C ] (PHOTOGRAPH)
specialized art one of the pictures on a strip of photographic film, or one of the single pictures that together form a television or cinema film
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- exposure
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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frameverb
uk/freɪm/us/freɪm/frame verb (EXPRESS)
[ T ] to express something choosing your words carefully:
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Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- demystify
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- fill
- get sth across
- mean
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
- unfold
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frame verb (MAKE GUILTY)
[ T often passive ] informal to make a person seem to be guilty of a crime when they are not, by producing facts or information that are not true:
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Blaming & accusing
- a bad workman blames his tools idiom
- accusatory
- accusing
- allegation
- attribute
- attribution
- carry
- chalk sth up
- charge
- condemnation
- contributory negligence
- face the music idiom
- finger
- finger-pointing
- hang
- indictment
- opprobrium
- recrimination
- stitch sb up
- thank sb for sth idiom
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frame verb (BORDER)
[ T ] to fix a border around a picture, etc. and often glass in front of it:
[ T ] to form an edge to something in an attractive way:
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- box sb/sth in
- dunk
- fence sth in
- fence sth off
- flooding
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wall sth off
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
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