reframe

See also: re-frame

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From re- +‎ frame.

Verb

reframe (third-person singular simple present reframes, present participle reframing, simple past and past participle reframed)

  1. (transitive) To mount in a frame again.
    The woman in the shop was reframing a painting.
  2. (transitive) To redescribe, from a different perspective; to relabel.
    The military reframed tedium as duty.
  3. (transitive) To change the angle and perspective of (video footage captured beforehand), as by a 360-degree camera.

Noun

reframe (plural reframes)

  1. An instance of reframing.
    • 2014, Arthur J. Clark, Empathy in Counseling and Psychotherapy:
      A counselor's reframe of the term “protecting” to “enabling” suggests a different function with respect to the individual's behavior.