frame

frame has 38 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.
• v. t.. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
• v. t.. To cause; to bring about; to produce.
• v. t.. To support.
• v. t.. To provide with a frame, as a picture.
• v. i.. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
• v. i.. To proceed; to go.
• n.. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
• n.. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
• n.. A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
• n.. The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.