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Framing   /frˈeɪmɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Framing  n.  
1.
The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
2.
(Arch. & Engin.) A framework.
Framing chisel (Carp.), a heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.


verb
Frame  v. t.  (past & past part. framed; pres. part. framing)  
1.
(Arch. & Engin.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
2.
To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. "How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years."
3.
To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. "And frame my face to all occasions." "We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness." "The human mind is framed to be influenced."
4.
To cause; to bring about; to produce. (Obs.) "Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds."
5.
To support. (Obs. & R.) "That on a staff his feeble steps did frame."
6.
To provide with a frame, as a picture.
7.
To manufacture false evidence against (an innocent person), so as to make the person appear guilty of a crime. The act of framing a person is often referred to as a frame-up.


Frame  v. i.  
1.
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. (Obs.)
2.
To proceed; to go. (Obs.) "The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame."





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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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