| inglese > italiano | |
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| frame | |
| 1. verb. incorniciare | |
| 2. verb. comporre | |
| 3. verb. formare | |
| 4. sost. cornice | |
| 5. sost. orbita | |
| 6. sost. telaio | |
| 7. sost. intelaiatura | |
| 8. sost. impalcatura | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| frame | |
| 1. v. To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. |  |
| 2. v. To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | |
| 3. v. To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. | |
| 4. v. 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. | |
| 5. v. Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border. | |
| 6. v. To position visually within a fixed boundary. | |
| The director frames the fishing scene very well. | |
| 7. v. To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation. | |
| How would you frame your accomplishments? | |
| The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. | |
| The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, dialectal) To move. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go. | |
| 12. v. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit). | |
| 13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform. | |
| All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage. | |
| 19. subst. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | |
| Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls. | |
| 20. subst. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | |
| 21. subst. The structure of a person's body. | |
| His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame. | |
| 22. subst. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material. | |
| The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame. | |
| 23. subst. A piece of photographic film containing an image. | |
| A film projector shows many frames in a single second. | |
| 24. subst. A context for understanding or interpretation. | |
| In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed. | |
| 25. subst. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted. | |
| 26. subst. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network. | |
| 27. subst. (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 | |
| 28. subst. (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants. | |
| a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame | |
| 29. subst. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change. | |
| 30. subst. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark. | |
| 31. subst. (film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. | |
| 32. subst. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage. | |
| 33. subst. (baseball, slang) An inning. | |
| 34. subst. (engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework. | |
| a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame | |
| 35. subst. (dated) frame of mind; disposition | |
| to be always in a happy frame | |
| 36. subst. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. | |
| 37. subst. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game. | |
| 38. subst. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets. | |
| 39. subst. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. | |
| 40. subst. (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| cornice | |
| 1. subst. frame | |
| 2. subst. (architecture) cornice | |
| 3. subst. ledge | |
| 4. subst. (figuratively) background, setting | |
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