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What does frame mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
  2. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
  3. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
  4. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
  5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
  6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
  7. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
  8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
  9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
  10. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
  12. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
  15. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
  16. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
  17. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
Noun
  1. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
  2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
  3. The structure of a person's body.
  4. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
  5. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
  6. A context for understanding or interpretation.
  7. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
  8. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
  9. (bowling) 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.
  10. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
  11. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
  12. (video game) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
  13. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
  14. (baseball, slang) An inning.
  15. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
  16. (dated) frame of mind; disposition
  17. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
  18. (video game) A stage or level of a video game.
  19. (genetics) A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
  20. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
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