frame
To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
Verb 4 meanings
To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
To put together the structural elements of (a constructed object such as a building).
“Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.”
Noun 4 meanings
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
“Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.”
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
“His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.”
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
“The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.”
Etymology
From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frammjan, from Proto-Germanic *framjaną (“to further, promote, perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
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FRAME at a glance
FRAME has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (F 4 + R 1 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,522 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with frame
All rhymesOne letter away
- FLAME10
- BRAME9
- FRATE8
- CRAME9
- ARAME7
- FRAPE10
- GRAME8
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