(a) picture frame; bicycle frame, framework; mettre un ~ à to frame a picture; sous ~ framed photograph; rouler avec son ami sur le ~ to ride with one's friend on the crossbar; ~ de développement photograph processing rack; viseur à ~ lumineux collimator viewfinder

(b) ~ (d'emballage) crate, packing case

(c) (more figurative uses) setting, general surroundings; (demarcation) scope, bounds, limits; dans le ~ de as part of, within the scope of; dans un ~ luxueux/sinistre in luxurious/sinister surroundings; rester dans le ~ de qch to remain within the scope of sth; sortir du ~ de ses fonctions to go (above and) beyond one's call of duty; respecter le ~ de la légalité to stay within the law; dans le ~ de as part of, within the context of, within the framework of; s'inscrire dans le ~ de to be part of, be within the scope of, come under the heading of; ~ de vie living environment

(d) (on form to fill in) box, space; ~ réservé à l'administration for official use only

(e) (Comput) text box, frame; (Internet) frame

(f) company executive, manager; military officer; ~ subalterne junior manager, junior executive; ~ moyen middle manager; ~ supérieur senior manager, executive; les ~s the managerial staff, the management team; les ~s supérieurs senior management, the senior management team, the senior executives; les ~s moyens middle management, the middle management team; passer ~ to be promoted to management; (humorous) jeune ~ dynamique whizzkid (Infml, often pejorative), upwardly mobile young executive (humorous)

(g) sur les ~s on the books; sur les ~s d'une compagnie on a company's payroll; être rayé des ~s to be dismissed

(h) radio frame antenna, frame aerial, loop aerial

(i) (Shipping) birth

(a) outline, blueprint law

(a) (Film, TV) in frame