Unframe
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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;"
- 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.”"
- 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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;"
Etymology
From un- + frame.
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