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Framing

noun

1.

Formulation of the plans and important details.

2.

A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror. Synonym: frame. "The frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"

Frame

verb

(past & past part. framed; pres. part. framing)

1.

Enclose in or as if in a frame. Synonyms: border, frame in.

2.

Enclose in a frame, as of a picture.

3.

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap. Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up. "The innocent man was framed by the police"

4.

Formulate in a particular style or language. Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact. "She cast her request in very polite language"

5.

Make up plans or basic details for. Synonyms: compose, draw up.

6.

Construct by fitting or uniting parts together. Synonym: frame up.

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"Framing" Quotes from Famous Books

... LAWS. In framing the Federal Constitution, in 1787, education, then being regarded largely as a local matter, was left to the States to handle as they saw fit; so we turn to the early state constitutions and laws to see how far the new American ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... later they pulled up in front of a small adobe shack nestling against a background of cottonwoods that told of the near presence of the creek. The door stood open, framing a black rectangle which proclaimed the emptiness of the hut, and with scarcely a pause the two rode slowly on, searching the moonlit ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... the greatest possible violation of faith and justice."—"There is an appearance of tenderness in this deviation from plain construction, of which, however meant, I have a right to complain; because it imposes on me the necessity of framing the terms of the accusation against myself, which you have only not made, but have stated the leading arguments to it so strongly, that no one who reads these can avoid making it, or not know ...

— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Lumber Plastering, Laths, Pine and Chestnut Shingles, and Framing Lumber a Specialty .. .. ...

— A Virginia Village • Charles A. Stewart

... elements which the seething caldron of the old world threw out upon the new. A part only of the materials furnished by these elements have I used in framing this tale. It is an attempt to elucidate the manners and credence of quite an early period, and to explain with the license accorded to a romancer, some passages ...

— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

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