Word Meanings - FRAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: FRAME

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. 2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years. I. Watts. 3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. And frame my face to all occasions. Shak. We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness. Landor. The human mind is framed to be influenced. I. Taylor. 4. To cause; to bring about; to produce. Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds. Shak. 5. To support. That on a staff his feeble steps did frame. Spenser. 6. To provide with a frame, as a picture. (more info) perform, effect, fr. fram strong, valiant; akin to E. foremost, and prob. to AS. fram from, Icel. fremja, frama, to further, framr forward, G. fromm worthy, excellent, pious. See Foremost, From, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAME)

• Cast
• Hurl
• send down
• throw
• fling
• pitch
• impel
• project
• construct
• mold
• frame
• Compose
• Construct
• compile
• soothe
• allay
• calm
• put together
• constitute
• draw up
• form
• pacify
• mitigate
• settle
• adjust
• write
• Constitution
• Temperament
• temper
• character
• habit
• nature
• government
• polity
• state
• consistence
• composition
• substance
• organization
• structure
• regulation
• law
• build
• fabricate
• erect
• invent
• Fabricate
• make
• forge
• falsify
• manufacture
• produce
• devise
• coin
• misrepresent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRAME)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict

Related words: (words related to FRAME)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.