"iframe" meaning in English

See iframe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-iframe.wav Forms: iframes [plural]
Etymology: From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame. Head templates: {{en-noun}} iframe (plural iframes)
  1. (Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-iframe-en-noun-WS511cMU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "iframes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "iframe (plural iframes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Internet",
          "orig": "en:Internet",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax, page 4:",
          "text": "This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:",
          "text": "Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource."
      ],
      "id": "en-iframe-en-noun-WS511cMU",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "web page",
          "web page"
        ],
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-iframe.wav",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "iframe"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "iframes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "iframe (plural iframes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Internet"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax, page 4:",
          "text": "This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:",
          "text": "Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "web page",
          "web page"
        ],
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-iframe.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-iframe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-iframe.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-iframe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-iframe.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "iframe"
}

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