Frame vs Pattern - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between frame and pattern

is that frame is to construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation while pattern is to serve as an example for.

As verbs the difference between frame and pattern

is that frame is to strengthen; refresh; support while pattern is to apply a pattern.

As nouns the difference between frame and pattern

is that frame is the structural elements of a building or other constructed object while pattern is model, example.

frame

English

Verb

(fram)

(obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.

At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame . ? Spenser.

(obsolete) To execute; perform.

The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ? Shakespeare.

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

* Shakespeare

Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.

(obsolete) To profit; avail.

(obsolete) To fit; accord.

When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame , thou must be fain to cast them out. ? Tyndale.

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

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

* John Lyly

I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.

* Shakespeare

frame my face to all occasions

* Landor

We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.

* I. Taylor

The human mind is framed to be influenced.

To construct by fitting or uniting together 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.

* Sir Philip Sidney

He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.

* I. Watts

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.

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.

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

To position visually within a fixed boundary.

The director frames the fishing scene very well.

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.

(criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.

The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.

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

(dialectal) To move.

An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ? E. Brontë.

(obsolete) To proceed; to go.

* Shakespeare

The beauty of this sinful dame / Made many princes thither frame .

Synonyms

* (conspire to incriminate) fit up

Derived terms

* beframe * enframe * framable, frameable * inframe * outframe * unframe

Noun

(en noun)

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

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

* Milton

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame .

The structure of a person's body.

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

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames , the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame , they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

A context for understanding or interpretation.

(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.

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

(film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

(baseball, slang) An inning.

(engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

a stocking frame'''; a lace '''frame'''; a spinning '''frame

frame of mind; disposition

to be always in a happy frame

Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

* Shakespeare

John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

A stage or level of a video game.

* 1982 , Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

Quotations

* {{quote-book , passage=...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame ... , page=17 , title=An Account of the Growth of Deism in England , author=William Stephens , year=1696}}

Derived terms

* frame ball * frame house * frame in * frame of mind * frame of reference * frameset * frame story * frame up * framework * framing hammer * framing square * inertial frame of reference * freeze frame * subframe * time frame * window frame ----

pattern

English

(wikipedia pattern)

Noun

(en noun)

Model, example.

# Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.

#* 1923 , ‘President Wilson’, Time , 18 Jun 1923:

There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern .

# Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.

#* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:

The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.

# A representative example.

# (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.

# (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.

# (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mould without damage.

# (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.

There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

Decorative arrangement.

# A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.

#* 2003 , Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time , 5 Feb 2003:

On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.

# A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.

#* 2011 , Rachel Cooke, The Observer , 19 Jun 2011:

He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns .

# The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.

# A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.

#* 1980 , ‘Shifting Targets’, Time , 6 Oct 1980:

The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.

#* 2003 , Kate Hudson, The Guardian , 14 Aug 2003:

Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.

# (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.

Synonyms

* original (1) * stencil (1) * tessellation (2) * category (3) * cycle (4) * similarity (5) * See also

Antonyms

* antipattern

Derived terms

* design pattern

Verb

(en verb)

to apply a pattern

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

* Sir T. Herbert

[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

to follow an example

to fit into a pattern

To serve as an example for.

Synonyms

* model * categorize (2)