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🖼️ To put in frame 🧠 To shape an idea
to enframe

to enframe

9.3
To present an idea in a story or speech so people see it in a certain way
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈfreɪm/
  • Jargon
translation icon : enmarcar
  • In his speech, the politician sought to enframe the issue of healthcare as a fundamental right for all citizens.

Examples

  • The documentary was designed to enframe the crisis within a historical context, helping viewers understand its roots.

  • The Internet has provided us all access to a reality enframed by complexity, in which abstracted representations have created the language of possibility of a new way of imagining the world.

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  • The artist used bright colors to enframe her message about environmental conservation.

How Persuasive

to manipulate
382 6.1
spin
  • Literature
145 7.5
to enframe
  • Jargon
9.3
report
∞ 1.3
to present
∞ 2.8
to mention
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

enframe infinitive
enframed past
enframed past participle
enframing present participle
enframes third person singular

Morphology

enframe = frame (semi-transparent) = en + frame

The sense is a metaphorical extension ('to present within a particular framework') that is inferable from 'frame' but requires recognizing the figurative use.

Etymology

Enframe comes from the parts en- 'in' and frame 'a border', so it can also mean to put an idea 'in a frame' and present it in a certain way so people see or understand it that way.