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Frame can be a verb or a noun.
frame used as a verb:
- 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." - Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to add a decorative border.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary.
"The director frames the fishing scene very well." - To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
"How would you frame your accomplishments?" - Of a presumably innocent person, to cause to appear guilty.
"The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
frame used as a noun:
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
"Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls." - The structure of a person's body.
"His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame." - A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
"The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame." - A piece of photographic film containing an image.
"A film projector shows many frames in a single second." - A context for understanding or interpretation.
"In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed." - A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- An independent chunk of data sent over the wires of a network.
- A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
- An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is frame?
- Verb usage: Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
- Verb usage: The director frames the fishing scene very well.
- Verb usage: How would you frame your accomplishments?
- Verb usage: The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
- Verb usage: The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
- Noun usage: Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
- Noun usage: His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
- Noun usage: The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
- Noun usage: A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
- Noun usage: In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of frame are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of frame, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
