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I am not good at linguistics but I was just wondering where the word frame comes in. I first got acquainted with this word through the doors and windows. It later pushed into picture and I also came to realise it can be used for a much broader meaning.
I didn't even know this word was extracted from an old English word ‘framian’. In short, how it has evolved from a word basically associating to help, profit and progress to being even attributed to doors and windows is something I was even looking at.
It turns out it can fit into a disputing situation. Someone frames you or something. Mostly applied to blackmail or trying to win a case over. How about something like ‘time-frame’? We will be staying here.
Drawing our attention from the normal window frames, its duty is to give shape and also showcase where the window starts and ends.
For instance, the year has a frame of 365 days (or 366 in every leap year). It means whatever you are about to plan in a year is boxed into this number of days.
Let's break down to a more simpler form; we are looking into time. 24 hours makes one day, 7 days makes one week and so on. Have you ever been in a situation where the time frame available seems very choking?.
Let's say in a situation where you arrived at an examination hall late. Of course, you know what to pen down but the supervisors are not ready to comply with any extension.
Well, I was going to focus on my current short time frame to pull out a lot of workload and also meet up with the needed bills. Things ended up in an unexpected scenario. We’ve been in a downtime for three days now. General electricity service providers decided to invade us very unaware.
You may just wish they decided to do this some months earlier and not within this period. There was a lot of work pending in the office and we had to deliver. Can we meet up by next week?.
It will be more about how fast we can first rectify the present issue, make the needed operational amendments and keep this running. Nevertheless, I have to admit, the time has been framed.