Difference between Ensnare and Frame

What is the difference between Ensnare and Frame?

Ensnare as a verb is to entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. while Frame as a verb is of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

Ensnare

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. To entangle; to enmesh.

Frame

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to add a decorative border.To position visually within a fixed boundary.To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.Of a presumably innocent person, to cause to appear guilty.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.The structure of a person's body.A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.A piece of photographic film containing an image.A context for understanding or interpretation.A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.An independent chunk of data sent over the wires of a network.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.The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

Example sentence: Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

We hope you now know whether to use Ensnare or Frame in your sentence.

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