OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11604

frame

/fɹeɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
armazón • bastidor • estructura • trasto
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
esqueleto • osamenta
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.
There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]
marco
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
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 roo…
The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
cuadro • fotograma
A piece of photographic film containing an image.
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…
A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
lote
An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
cuadro
A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 11603

frame

/fɹeɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
armar • levantar la estructura
Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
encuadrar • enmarcar
Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
concebir • contextualizar
To position visually within a fixed boundary.
The director frames the fishing scene very well.
contextualizar • encuadrar
To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
How would you frame your accomplishments?
The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
achacar • hacer la cama • incriminar falsamente • inculpar falsamente
To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.