What is the meaning of frame?

noun

• The framework for a pair of eyeglasses.
• A single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film.
• Alternative names for the body of a human being.
  • usage: "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
  • synonyms: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, form, flesh
• Baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat.
  • synonyms: inning
• A single drawing in a comic_strip.
• An application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently.
• A system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning.
  • synonyms: frame of reference
• The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal.
  • synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale
• The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.
  • usage: "the building has a steel skeleton"
  • synonyms: skeleton, skeletal frame, underframe
• A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror.
  • usage: "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"
  • synonyms: framing
• One of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided.

verb

• Enclose in or as if in a frame.
  • usage: "frame a picture"
  • synonyms: frame in, border
• Enclose in a frame, as of a picture.
• Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
  • usage: "I was set up"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
  • synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up
• Formulate in a particular style or language.
  • usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
  • synonyms: redact, cast, put, couch
• Make up plans or basic details for.
  • usage: "frame a policy"
  • synonyms: compose, draw up
• Construct by fitting or uniting parts together.
  • synonyms: frame up