unframe

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Definition of unframe

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To take apart or destroy; to unmake.
    “[…] or in your converse with others, may be, ungodly persons, whereby casting off the sense of this, we often cast the honour of our profession to the ground, and by our sinful neglects or compliances, unframe our selves;”
    “A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds”
    “At their approach his heart alters its motion; his blood stops from its common course; his sinews are all relaxed, which entirely unframes his reason, and makes him a stranger to his own inclination, which, struggling with his wavering resolution, occasions a debate between hope and fear;”
    “All day Sunday to frame and unframe penitent speeches.”
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verb

  1. To take apart or destroy; to unmake.
    “[…] or in your converse with others, may be, ungodly persons, whereby casting off the sense of this, we often cast the honour of our profession to the ground, and by our sinful neglects or compliances, unframe our selves;”
    “A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds”
    “At their approach his heart alters its motion; his blood stops from its common course; his sinews are all relaxed, which entirely unframes his reason, and makes him a stranger to his own inclination, which, struggling with his wavering resolution, occasions a debate between hope and fear;”
    “All day Sunday to frame and unframe penitent speeches.”
  2. To remove from a frame
    ““We have only to unframe the picture,” he said. “ I remember that on the edge of the canvas there is a streak of paint, gray paint that went beyond the edge of the stretcher.””
    “More than six or seven sketches were made of this subject before I did the finished drawing, and even now I find myself tempted to unframe it to go on working at it.”
    “Do not unframe mechanically damaged paintings. Only unframe if glass front protection is splintered.”
  3. To make HTML code that appears within a frameset accessible to browsers that do not support framesets.
    “To prevent this from happening, it's important to unframe pages for external links or internal links to frameset documents. The easiest way to unframe pages is to use either the _blank or _top special targets discussed earlier.”
  4. To show the innocence of one who has been framed.
    “I decided to unframe the frame-up, to obtain Miss Holiday's acquittal, and to clearly document Mr. Levy's status and function in the case.”
  5. To free one's viewpoint of its ideological or cultural frame of reference.
    “One way to achieve this is to go beyond canonical representations of Miinter, to unframe her from the location within the modern confines of modernism, and thus to unframe her from victimhood.”
    “In order to understand the contemporary ideological dynamics of World Englishes, we need to unframe particular understandings of Englishes which have mobilized past and recent work in the field (even as we further build on them).”
    “Drawing renews wonder and unframes vision.”

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Etymology

From un- + frame.

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