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  • 71frame — A structure made of parts fitted together. Balkan f. an overhead f., supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. SYN: Balkan beam,… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 72frame up — Synonyms and related words: artifice, cabal, cheat, clinquant, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, counterfeit, counterplot, covin, deep laid plot, dummy, engineering, fake, fakement,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 73Frame — 1. emaciated stock animal; 2. frame up; that which is framed, as a plot, or a contest whose result is fraudulently prearranged; fix up; 3. incriminate (someone) unjustly by manufacturing evidence …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 74frame — I Australian Slang 1. emaciated stock animal; 2. frame up; that which is framed, as a plot, or a contest whose result is fraudulently prearranged; fix up; 3. incriminate (someone) unjustly by manufacturing evidence II Mawdesley Glossary to fix or …

    English dialects glossary

  • 75Frame — 1. Begriff: Form der ⇡ Wissensrepräsentation; Wissen über ein Objekt wird durch Zusammenfassung seiner Eigenschaften in einem „Rahmen“ dargestellt. Es enthält Aspekte der ⇡ deklarativen Wissensrepräsentation und der ⇡ prozeduralen… …

    Lexikon der Economics

  • 76frame — n To give false evidence. My best friend tried to frame me for flushing the cherry bomb down the john by putting the rest of them in my locker. 1920s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 77frame — freɪm n. casing; skeleton; structure; body structure; mood; picture in a film; (Internet) data packet that includes header and footer fields that are needed to display data on a physical medium v. enclose in a frame (i.e. a picture); contrive… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 78frame — i. In photography, any single exposure contained within a continuous sequence of photographs. ii. Transverse structural members of the fuselage supporting the longerons. A fuselage normally is divided into numbered frames. The number 1 frame is… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 79frame — I. v. a. 1. Construct, build, put together. 2. Form, compose, make, constitute. 3. Invent, devise, plan, contrive. 4. Fabricate, forge. 5. Put into a frame. II. n. 1. Skeleton, framing, framework, carcass …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 80frame-up — noun, informal he spent six years behind bars, the victim of a clever frame up Syn: conspiracy, plot; trick, trap, entrapment; informal put up job, setup …

    Thesaurus of popular words