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51frame — 1. tv. to cause an innocent person to be blamed for a crime; to contrive evidence so that someone appears to be guilty. (Originally underworld.) □ Jimmy tried to frame his sister for painting the cat yellow. □ You won’t frame me and get away with …
52frame — 1. verb /freɪm/ a) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame …
53frame — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. construct, fashion, fabricate; devise, compose, formulate; enclose; slang, incriminate, trump up. See production, accusation, plan. n. framework, skeleton; edge, boundary, confines; temper, state,… …
54Frame — 1Frame [fre:m] der; n [...mən], Plur. n [...mən] u. s <aus gleichbed. engl. frame zu to frame »zusammenpassen, setzen«> Rahmen, Träger in Eisenbahnfahrzeugen. Frame 2 2Frame der u. das; s, s <zu 1↑Frame>: 1. besondere Datenstruktur… …
55frame — 1. to incriminate falsely Like mounting a picture, so that you can see it better: I take it you don t want your daughter inlaw framed. (Chandler, 1943 the speaker was not a photographer) The result is a. frame up: It s a frame up …
56frame — [OE] Frame comes from the preposition from, whose underlying notion is of ‘forward progress’. This was incorporated into a verb framian in Old English times, which meant ‘make progress’. Its modern meaning started to develop in the early Middle… …
57frame-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms frame up : singular frame up plural frame ups informal a situation in which someone tries to make an innocent person seem guilty of a crime, by lying or by producing false evidence …
58frame — [OE] Frame comes from the preposition from, whose underlying notion is of ‘forward progress’. This was incorporated into a verb framian in Old English times, which meant ‘make progress’. Its modern meaning started to develop in the early Middle… …
59Frame — Es una imagen independiente, la sucesión de las cuales compone una animación. Esto viene dado por las pequeñas diferencias que hay entre cada uno de los frames que producen a la vista la sensación de movimiento. La frecuencia es el número de… …
60Frame — allgem.: Rahmen; bei der Datenübertragung die um die Nutzinformation gelegte Protokollinformation (SFS EFS) Im Zusammenhang von GSM spricht man auf der Luftschnittstelle von TDMA Frames. Jedes TDMA Frame in GSM hat eine Nummer, anhand derer es… …
