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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

... guilt of 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 it to ...

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

... exclusion from political power. They ought to have the same legal rights as men to earn, hold, and control property. Since they have the same interest as man in the laws they live under, they are entitled, in some way, either by their own voice or through others, to the same consideration in the framing and ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... seat in a line with an elderly man from whom he was distant enough to glance at him more than once as rather a noticeable figure—his ample white beard and felt hat framing a profile of that fine contour which may as easily be Italian as Hebrew. He returned Deronda's notice till at last their eyes met; an undesirable chance with unknown persons, and a reason to Deronda for not looking ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... the ground and placed facing the katounes, among which the sign of the day Ik is repeated three times on the right side and once with two other signs on the left side. The central image is surrounded by a sort of framing in which have been traced the twenty cyclic characters of the calendar. Some of these characters would not be recognizable if one possessed only the data of Landa, but they are henceforth easy to read, for I have had occasion to determine, after a certain fashion, ...

— Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts • Cyrus Thomas

... him quickly, but she did not express her marvel that this man had so many sides. Before she could comment, and while she was still framing some way to express her appreciation of his gentler gifts, he returned ...

— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester

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