Word Finder - frames

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The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

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

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

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The structure of a person's body; the human body.

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His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.

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

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The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.

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A piece of photographic film containing an image.

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A film projector shows many frames in a single second.

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A context for understanding or interpretation.

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In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.

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

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An independent chunk of data sent over a network.

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A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

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A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.

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a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame

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The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.

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The outer circle of a cancellation mark.

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A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.

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An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

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An inning.

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Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

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a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame

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Frame of mind; disposition.

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to be always in a happy frame

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Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

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A stage or level of a video game.

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("reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.

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A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

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A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.

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

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

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To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

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Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

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

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Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.

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To position visually within a fixed boundary.

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The director frames the fishing scene very well.

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

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How would you frame your accomplishments?

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Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.

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

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To wash ore with the aid of a frame.

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To move.

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To proceed; to go.

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To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).

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To strengthen; refresh; support.

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To execute; perform.

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All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth.

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To cause; to bring about; to produce.

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To profit; avail.

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To fit; accord.

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To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

Even the pictures on the wall were black and white photography in black frames.

She opened the door to her tiny room, taking in the two twin beds with sagging metal frames.

Lightning flashed brilliantly and thunder rattled the windowpanes in their frames.

After the success of the Rocket, the Stephensons received orders to build seven more engines, which were of very similar design, though rather larger, being four-wheeled engines, with the two driving wheels in front and the cylinders behind; and in October 1830 they constructed a ninth engine, the Planet, also for the Liverpool & Manchester railway, which still more closely resembled the modern type, since the driving wheels were placed at the fire-box end, while the two cylinders were arranged under the smoke-box, inside the frames.

In these there are two lowpressure cylinders placed outside the frame, and one highpressure cylinder placed between the frames.

There are two high-pressure cylinders placed outside the frame, and two low-pressure placed inside the frames.

A second advantage of the vestibule developed in use, for it was found that the lateral swaying of the cars was diminished by the friction between the vestibule frames.

The demiurge of the Mandaeans, and corresponding to the Ialdabaoth of the Ophites, he at the instance of his father frames the earth and men - according to some passages in conjunction with the seven bad planetary spirits.

Steel frames are more durable than those of wood, and have become common in nearly all mining countries, especially where timber is scarce.

These are long frames on four wheels, with a series of seats like a section of a theatre gallery.

When the window openings were large, as was the case in basilicas and other public buildings, and even in houses, the pieces of glass were, doubtless, fixed in pierced slabs of marble or in frames of wood or bronze.

St Sofia when erected by Justinian had vaults covered with mosaics and immense windows filled with plates of glass fitted into pierced marble frames; some of the plates, 7 to 8 in.

He also made with great taste and skill large lustres and mirrors with frames of glass ornamented either in intaglio or with foliage of various colours.

Solingen is one of the chief seats of the German iron and steel industry, its speciality consisting in all kinds of cutlery, Solingen sword-blades have been celebrated for centuries, and are widely used outside Germany, while bayonets, knives, scissors, surgical instruments, files, steel frames and the like are also produced in enormous quantities.

Hermite, which consisted in the production of bleach-liquors by the electrolysis (according to the 1st edition of the 1884 patent) of magnesium or calcium chloride between platinum anodes carried in wooden frames, and zinc cathodes.

Many modifications have been patented by Hermite, that of 1895 specifying the use of platinum gauze anodes, held in ebonite or other frames.

In the Thies process, used in many districts in the United States, the vats are rotating barrels made, in the later forms, of iron lined with lead, and provided with a filter formed of a finely perforated leaden grating running from one end of the barrel to the other, and rigidly held in place by wooden frames.

The vats are fitted with filters made of coco-nut matting and jute cloth supported on wooden frames.

These are made to shut air-tight against their frames, so as to prevent the air from taking a short cut back to the upcast, while preserving free access between the different districts without following the whole round of the air-ways.

A recording drum or integrating apparatus may be arranged on the pulley frames.

The north-west coast Indians hoisted the logs that formed the plates of their house frames into position with skids and parbuckles of rope.

A crude method consists of straining the liquid through cotton or other cloth, either stretched on wooden frames or formed into long narrow bags ("bag-filters").

The axis becomes, therefore, a line of resistance, and in reasoning of the stresses on frames we may treat the frame as consisting of simple straight lines from joint to joint.

Frames are much used as girders, and they also give useful designs for suspension and arched bridges.

Bow (Economics of Construction), and is convenient in applying the theory of reciprocal figures to the computation of stresses on frames.

The discharge of a river at a weir can be regulated as required and considerably increased in flood-time by introducing a series of openings in the centre of a solid weir, with sluice-gates or panels which slide in grooves at the sides of upright frames or masonry piers erected at convenient intervals apart, FIG.

The ordinary form of frame weir consists of a series of iron frames placed across a river end on to the current, between 3 and 4 ft.

The barrier was originally formed of a number of long square wooden spars which could be readily handled by one man, being inclined slightly - from the vertical and placed close together for shutting the weir; but panels of wood or sheetiron closing the space between adjacent frames and sliding in grooves at the sides, and rolling-up curtains ?

The needles are put in place one by one against the raised frames, or trestles, by a derrick on a barge lifting them by their ring, whilst a man on the foot-bridge, taking hold of the eye at the top, arranges them in position close together.

Whereas, however, ordinary frames placed nearer together than their height overlap one another when lowered on to the apron, the trestles of the Louisa weir lie clear of each other quite flat on the apron.

An objection has occasionally been urged against frames lowered on to the bed of a river that they are liable to be covered over by detritus or drift brought down by floods, and consequently are subject to injury or impediments in being raised.

The weir is raised again by pulling up the shutters to a horizontal position by their bottom chains from a special boat, or from a foot-bridge on movable frames, together with their trestles and the props which are replaced in their shoes.

The addition of a foot-bridge greatly facilitates the raising and lowering of these shutter weirs, and also aids the regulation of the discharge; but it renders this form of weir much more costly than the ordinary frame weir, and where large quantities of drift come down with sudden floods, the frames of the bridge are liable to be carried away, and therefore boats must be relied on for working the weir.

From the wood, platters, axe-handles, snow-shoe frames, and dog sledges are made, and it is worked into articles of furniture which are susceptible of a good polish.

This process is exactly the same as in the cotton or worsted industry, ring or flyer frames being used as desired.

The hull of an iron or steel ship is a magnet, and the distribution of its magnetism depends upon the direction of the ship's head when building, this result being produced by induction from the earth's magnetism, developed and impressed by the hammering of the plates and frames during the process of building.

Stevinus was the first to show how to model regular and semiregular polyhedra by delineating their frames in a plane.

These include all those structures which are more intimately associated with the growth of ornamental plants and flowers, and comprise conservatory, plant stove, greenhouse and the subsidiary pits and frames.

Pits and frames of various kinds are frequently used for the cultivation of cucumbers and melons, as well as hot beds covered by ordinary garden frames.

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All grafting of this kind is done in the propagating house, at any season when grafts are obtainable in a fit state - the plants when operated on being placed in close frames warmed to a suitable temperature.

Of those that are liable to suffer injury in winter, as the Brompton and Queen Stocks, a portion should be potted and wintered in cold frames ventilated as freely as the weather will permit.

This is necessary not only to make up the required hotbeds in the first place, but also to fill in the pathways between the frames, wherever it is considered advisable to maintain the heat within the frames at a certain point.

Protect broccoli as it becomes fit for use, or remove to a dry shed or cellar; lettuces and endive, which are best planted in frames; and parsley in frames so as to be accessible.

Transplant to the bottom of a south wall a portion of the peas sown in pots in frames in November and January for the first crop. Sow Brussels sprouts in gentle heat for an early crop.

Plant cabbages in beds or close rows till wanted in spring; and cauliflowers in the last week, to receive the protection of frames, or a sheltered situation.

Sow early peas and Early Dwarf Prolific beans in the second week, for an early crop; also in frames for transplanting.

Plant Houses, Frames, &c. - Carnations and picotees in pots must be kept rather dry to prevent damping off.

Due attention must be paid to shifting well-rooted plants into larger pots; and, if space is desired, many kinds of hardier plants can be safely put out in cold frames.

If cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce are wanted to plant in cold frames, the seed should be sown from about the 10th to the 20th of this month; but judgment should be exercised, for, if sown too early, cabbage and cauliflower are apt to run to seed.