Bustle vs. Frame — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bustle and Frame
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Bustle
A bustle is a padded undergarment used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. Bustles were worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging.
Frame
A structure that gives shape or support
The frame of a house.
Bustle
Move in an energetic and busy manner
People clutching clipboards bustled about
Frame
The structure or physique of a human or animal body
A worker's sturdy frame.
Bustle
Excited activity and movement
All the noise and the traffic and the bustle
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Frame
An open structure or rim for encasing, holding, or bordering
A window frame.
The frame of a mirror.
Bustle
A pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind.
Frame
A closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines.
Bustle
To move or cause to move energetically and busily.
Frame
The edge, usually rectangular, delimiting the boundaries of an image.
Bustle
Excited and often noisy activity; a stir.
Frame
The bounded area of a visual image, as in photography or film
Filled the frame with a cast of thousands.
Bustle
A frame or pad to support and expand the fullness of the back of a skirt.
Frame
One of the set of still images that constitute a film or video.
Bustle
A bow, peplum, or gathering of material at the back of a skirt below the waist.
Frame
A single image, as in a comic strip or graphic novel, usually bounded by a rectangular line.
Bustle
An excited activity; a stir.
Frame
(Computers) A rectangular area in which text or graphics can be shown, especially one of several rectangular areas on a web page displaying different documents simultaneously.
Bustle
A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
Frame
A general structure or system
The frame of government.
Bustle
A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
Frame
A general state or condition
The news put me into a better frame of mind.
Bustle
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
Frame
A frame of reference.
Bustle
To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
The train station was bustling with commuters.
Frame
The presentation of events in a narrative work, especially a work of literature or film, such that characters in the narrative exist in isolation, uninfluenced by, unaware of, and unable to interact with the narrator or audience.
Bustle
(transitive) To push around, to importune.
Frame
The context in which discourse occurs.
Bustle
To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in.
Frame
A pattern for a syntactic construction in which one of a group of words can vary.
Bustle
Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
A strange bustle and disturbance in the world.
Frame
A round or period of play in some games, such as bowling and billiards.
Bustle
A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; - called also bishop, and tournure.
Frame
(Baseball) An inning.
Bustle
A rapid bustling commotion
Frame
Often frames A pair of eyeglasses, excluding the lenses
Had new lenses fitted into an old pair of frames.
Bustle
A framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt
Frame
See cold frame.
Bustle
Move or cause to move energetically or busily;
The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance
Frame
(Informal) A frame-up.
Frame
(Obsolete) Shape; form.
Frame
To enclose in a frame
Frame a painting.
Frame
To put together the structural parts of; construct the frame of
Frame a house.
Frame
To conceive or design
Framed an alternate proposal.
Frame
To establish the context for and terminology regarding (a subject of discussion or debate), especially so as to exclude an unwanted point of view
The question was framed to draw only one answer.
Frame
To put into words; formulate
Frame a reply.
Frame
To form (words) silently with the lips.
Frame
To make up evidence or contrive events so as to incriminate (a person) falsely.
Frame
To prearrange (a contest) so as to ensure a desired fraudulent outcome; fix
Frame a prizefight.
Frame
(Baseball) To catch (a pitch) in such a way as to make it appear to have passed through the strike zone.
Frame
(Archaic) To go; proceed
"Frame upstairs, and make little din" (Emily Brontë).
Frame
(transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
Frame
(transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
Frame
(transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
Frame
(transitive) 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.
Frame
(transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
Frame
(transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
The director frames the fishing scene very well.
Frame
(transitive) 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.
They have framed this sentencing bill as not caring about victims; we have to frame it as preventing government overreach.
Frame
Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
Frame
To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
Frame
To move.
Frame
To proceed; to go.
Frame
(tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
Frame
To strengthen; refresh; support.
Frame
To execute; perform.
All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth.
Frame
To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Frame
To profit; avail.
Frame
To fit; accord.
Frame
To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
Frame
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.
Frame
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
Frame
The structure of a person's body; the human body.
His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.
Frame
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame.
Frame
A piece of photographic film containing an image.
A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
Frame
A context for understanding or interpretation.
In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
Frame
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
Frame
(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
Frame
(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.
Frame
(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
Frame
(horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
A forcing-frame; a cucumber frame
Frame
(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
Frame
(philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
Frame
A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
Frame
(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
Frame
An inning.
Frame
Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
A stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame
Frame
(dated) Frame of mind; disposition.
To be always in a happy frame
Frame
(obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
Frame
A stage or location in a video game.
Frame
A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
Frame
(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
Frame
(mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
Frame
To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.
How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
Frame
To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
And frame my face to all occasions.
We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
The human mind is framed to be influenced.
Frame
To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
Frame
To support.
That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.
Frame
To provide with a frame, as a picture.
Frame
To manufacture false evidence against (an innocent person), so as to make the person appear guilty of a crime. The act of framing a person is often referred to as a frame-up.
Frame
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
Frame
To proceed; to go.
The bauty of this sinful dameMade many princes thither frame.
Frame
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,Almighty! thine this universal frame.
Frame
The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
No frames could be strong enough to endure it.
Frame
A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
Frame
A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
Frame
Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.
She that hath a heart of that fine frameTo pay this debt of love but to a brother.
Put your discourse into some frame.
Frame
Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. Same as frame of mind
Frame
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
John the bastardWhose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
Frame
In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.
Frame
A structure supporting or containing something
Frame
One of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies
Frame
Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Frame
A period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat
Frame
The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
Frame
The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;
The building has a steel skeleton
Frame
Enclose in or as if in a frame;
Frame a picture
Frame
Enclose in a frame, as of a picture
Frame
Take or catch as if in a snare or trap;
I was set up!
The innocent man was framed by the police
Frame
Formulate in a particular style or language;
I wouldn't put it that way
She cast her request in very polite language
Frame
Draw up the plans or basic details for;
Frame a policy
Frame
Construct by fitting or uniting parts together
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