frame – English noun declension

English noun forms of frame

Noun: frame
Singularframe
Pluralframes

Sample Sentences

  • Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
  • The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare,
  • Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps,
  • Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen,
  • Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:]
  • These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame. [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
  • There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […] [1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXXIV:]
  • The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them. [1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi]
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
  • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
  • A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
  • In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
  • Interests groups compete to have their preferred frames shape policy discussions. [2020 May, Kelcie Ralph, Ian Girardeau, “Distracted by “distracted pedestrians”?”, in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, volume 5:]
  • Didn't you ever wonder this whole thing may be a frame? [1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):]
  • In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame. [1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports, page 712:]
  • a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame
  • a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
  • to be always in a happy frame
  • And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest. [1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, in Wuthering Heights:]
  • John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time. [1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]]
  • Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though. [1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)]
  • The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening. [1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)]
  • a chicken frame

Etymology

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”). See: Middle English Nouns 'frame', Old Norse Nouns 'frami', Dutch Nouns 'raam'.

Verbs referencing "frame"

Dutch Nouns frame, German Nouns Frame.