frame in English: The border that holds a picture, or the strong structure that gives something its shape. (noun)

/freɪm/

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Translation

The border that holds a picture, or the strong structure that gives something its shape.

Word origin

From Old English framian, meaning to be useful or to make progress, which later came to mean to shape or build.

A picture frame is the border around a picture.

A frame can be the fixed border a door or window sits in.

Here frame means the strong structure that holds the whole thing together.

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This word is part of lesson 42.