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

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

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

Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.

To position visually within a fixed boundary.

To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.

(criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person. +

(mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.

(dialectal) To move.

(obsolete) To proceed; to go.

(tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).

(obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.

(obsolete) To execute; perform.

(obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.

(obsolete) To profit; avail.

(obsolete) To fit; accord.

(obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

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

(body) 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. +

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

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

A context for understanding or interpretation.

(crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.

(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.

(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.

(horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.

(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.

(philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.

(time)(video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

(slang) An inning.

(UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

(dated) Frame of mind; disposition.

(obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

(video games) A stage or location in a video game.

("reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.

(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

(mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.

(operating systems) (page frame,memory frame).