Definition of frame:

• The beginning and end of a transmission packet. Scopes a variable-size packet of data bits in a particular format. Codes, called flags, delimit this scope. This scope usually contains its own control instructions with addressing and error detection information. Also known as a block or cell depending on the network protocol in use.
• To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
• To contrive.
• To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.
• To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
• To cause; to bring about; to produce.
• To support.
• To provide with a frame, as a picture.
• To fit ( one thing) into another; shape or form; adjust or regulate; invent; adapt.
• To form: to shape: to construct by fitting the parts to each other: to plan: to constitute: to put a border on: ( B.) to contrive.
• To construct; adjust; contrive; put a frame on.
• To put together; contrive; arrange; shape; surround with a frame.
• To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
• To proceed; to go.
• draw up the plans or basic details for; " frame a policy"
• take or catch as if in a snare or trap; " I was set up!"; " The innocent man was framed by the police"
• To construct by fitting parts together; to fit one thing to another; to make; to compose, as laws; to conform; to form and digest by thought; to plan; to fabricate.
• To form or shape; to fit one thing to another; to compose; to draw up.
• To contrive; to effect; to manage.
• one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies
• the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; " the building has a steel skeleton"
• the hard structure ( bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
• a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat
• Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
• The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
• A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
• The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
• A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.
• The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
• A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.
• A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
• A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
• Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.
• Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.
• Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
• In games: ( a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. ( b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.
• Something constructed or made of parts fitted and joined together; that on which anything is held or stretched; as, a quilting frame; any contrivance for inclosing, admitting, or supporting something; as, a window frame; shape; temper; state; as, of the mind.
• The form: a putting together of parts: a case made to inclose or support anything: the skeleton: state of mind.
• Fabric; structure; contrivance to inclose or support; state of mind.
• Something composed of parts united in a system; arrangement; constitution; framework; case.
• A mental state or condition.
• Fabric or structure composed of parts fitted and united; any kind of case or structure made for admitting, enclosing, or supporting things; a framework; form; system; shape; contrivance; temper or disposition of mind; a sort of loom an which linen, silk, & c, is stretched for quilting or embroidering; a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed; a kind of ledge, enclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mould for castings. Frame timbers, those timbers which constitute the frame of a vessel. Lace- frame, a frame or machine for making lace. Stocking- frame, a loom or machine for making stockings.
• A structure formed of united parts; anything made to enclose or surround something else; that on which anything is held or stretched; order; particular state, as of the mind.

Usage examples for frame

1. He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust.  Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

2. He was even smiling a little, though there was a white, even frame to his lips.  The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

3. The first get seats behind the rest, the most esteemed seat because you can rest your shaken frame against the back part of the wagon.  Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

4. It's nothing but a frame- up!  Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery by Joan Clark