frame

Everyday

1. A frame is a border that goes around something, like around a picture, a mirror or a window. tree →
2. A frame is the strong structure that holds something up, like the frame of a bike, a house or glasses. tree →
3. To frame a picture is to put it in a frame. tree →
4. Your frame is the size and shape of your body. tree →
5. A frame is one picture in a film or comic. tree →
6. To frame someone is to make them look guilty when they are not. tree →

In the lessons

maths: a shape whose edge is measured (perimeter: wood or ribbon around) or an object counted; the picture inside points to area; also a picture frame bought for money; science: skeletons are the body's frame; everyday life: photo frames, glasses frames, a climbing frame; stories: the detective found he had been framed

Examples

• A picture frame is 20 cm long and 15 cm wide. tree →
• How much wood is needed for the frame? tree →
• She buys 3 frames for 6 dollars each. tree →
• The window frame is a rectangle. tree →
• We hung the photo in a wooden frame. tree →
• My glasses have red frames. tree →
• The children played on the climbing frame. tree →
• The bike frame is made of metal. tree →
• "Such an one must be carved on the frame of our picture." tree →

Note

Wood or ribbon «around» a frame points to perimeter; the picture inside points to area. Trap: do not mix up the length around with the space inside.

In Jewish tradition

It means the make-up or shape of a body, or to shape something. The psalm says God knows our frame, that we are dust, and Job says God's hands framed him. In the Temple a frame was the border holding the door-posts.

Interpretation. The tradition reads "He knoweth our frame" as God's mercy, since He remembers how fragile people are. The idea of God shaping the human body ties to His forming the first man from the earth.

Examples

• Be this as it may, it is worth while to know the extravagant hypotheses which ancient Jewish philosophers and theologians framed as soon as they began to contemplate and to reason, endeavoring to combine oriental and Greek theories. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• which the world, in all its parts, is framed. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. (Writings PSA.103.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me! (Writings JOB.10.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four-square; (Prophets 1KI.6.33, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Wood or ribbon «around» a frame points to perimeter; the picture inside points to area. Trap: do not mix up the length around with the space inside.