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1[countable] a strong border or structure of wood, metal, etc. that holds a picture, door, piece of glass, etc. in position a picture frame aluminum window frames I'm going to paint the door frame white.
structure - 2[countable] the supporting structure of a piece of furniture, a building, a vehicle, etc. that gives it its shape the frame of an aircraft/a car/a bicycle The bed frame is made of pine.
- 3[countable, usually plural] a structure of plastic or metal that holds the lenses in a pair of glasses gold-rimmed frames person/animal's body
- 4[countable, usually singular] the form or structure of a person or animal's body to have a small/slender/large frame The bed was shorter than his six-foot frame. general ideas
- 5[singular] the general ideas or structure that form the background to something In this course we hope to look at literature in the frame of its social and historical context. see time frame of movie/video
- 6[countable] one of the single photographs that a movie or video is made of of picture story
- 7[countable] a single picture in a comic strip
- 8[countable] one of the separate areas on an Internet page that you can scroll through (= read by using the mouse to move the text up or down) in garden
- 9[countable] = cold frame in bowling/pool
- 10[countable] a single section of play in the game of bowling or pool He won the first frame easily.
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