frame vs front

frame

verb
  • Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup. 

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

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

  • To move. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To position visually within a fixed boundary. 

  • To wash ore with the aid of a frame. 

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

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

noun
  • An independent chunk of data sent over a network. 

  • An individually scrollable region of a webpage. 

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

  • A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets. 

  • A context for understanding or interpretation. 

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

  • A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins. 

  • A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. 

  • The outer circle of a cancellation mark. 

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

  • A piece of photographic film containing an image. 

  • A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants. 

  • An inning. 

  • A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. 

  • 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. 

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

  • The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. 

  • The structure of a person's body; the human body. 

  • The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration. 

front

verb
  • To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on). 

  • To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. 

  • To provide money or financial assistance in advance to. 

  • To appear before. 

  • To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc). 

  • To pronounce with the tongue in a front position. 

  • To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front. 

  • To assume false or disingenuous appearances. 

  • Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body. 

  • To act as a front (for); to cover (for). 

  • To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.). 

  • To face, be opposite to. 

noun
  • An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact. 

  • A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army. 

  • A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth). 

  • The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. 

  • A seafront or coastal promenade. 

  • A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group. 

  • The beginning. 

  • A field of activity. 

  • The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank. 

  • An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself. 

  • The most conspicuous part. 

  • That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. 

  • The side of a building with the main entrance. 

  • When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced. 

  • The direction of the enemy. 

  • The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature. 

adj
  • Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one). 

  • Located at or near the front. 

  • Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel). 

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