Backing and Frame

Backing

Backing noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Frame and backing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Frame" instead a noun "Backing".

Nearby Words: back, background, backer, backup, backed

Frame noun - The arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form.

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Backing and frame are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backing" instead a noun "Frame".

Nearby Words: framed, framework, framing

full	full backing	full frame
current	current backing	current frame
true	true backing	true frame
light	light backing	light frame
Other adjectives: open, empty, heavy, actual, entire, massive, slow, basic, different.

In Popeye, the titular character carries an empty picture frame with the words "ME POPPA" painted on the empty backing.

Source: Memento MacGuffin
But his backing band, the Mindbenders, continued for three more years, scoring, in that time frame, another hit with "A Groovy Kind of Love," sung by guitarist Eric Stewart.

Source: The Band Minus the Face
Shown Their Work: The science presented in the game is some of the most sound in Science Fiction - even the Frame-Shift Drive, the setting's One Big Lie, has some amount of scientific theory backing it up.

Source: Videogame / Elite: Dangerous

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