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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

... suffragist will here rejoin—"is it not at any rate true that in the drafting of statutes and the framing of judicial decisions man has always nefariously ...

— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright

... was trying to invent some way of framing my little picture of Francis, so as to see it every day before my eyes. And now this evening's mail brings your letter, and I am trying to believe what it says is true. If grief and pain could comfort you, you would ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... the more reasonable astrology of the ancients, and enquire into some of the traditions which Bacon considered worthy of attention in framing the precepts of a sound ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

... of Venus is entered from the neighboring street which we have already traversed. The ruin is a fine one—the finest, perhaps, in Pompeii; a spacious inclosure, or peribolus, framing a portico of forty-eight columns, of which many are still standing, and the portico itself surrounding the podium, where rose the temple—properly speaking, the house of the goddess. In front of the entrance, at the foot of the steps that ascend ...

— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier

... the framing of the Heaven out of the waters proves that the words 'Heaven and Earth,' in the first verse, must be taken ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

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