frame

To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.

frame my face to all occasions

To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements, Warring within our breaſts for regiment, Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:

To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.

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 place inside a decorative border.

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.

The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare, Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps, Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen, Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame.

A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.

His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.

There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]

A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

A film projector shows many frames in a single second.

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.