Framing
['freɪmɪŋ] or ['fremɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) formulation of the plans and important details; 'the framing of judicial decrees'.
Checked by Abby--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frame
(n.) The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
(n.) A framework, or a sy/ of frames.
Edited by Jonathan
Examples
- Only by a pupil's own observations, reflections, framing and testing of suggestions can what he already knows be amplified and rectified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All the rest of the night I tossed and tumbled, framing theory after theory, each more unlikely than the last. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I then quietly opened my writing-desk and began framing an excuse lordship. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Now I am about to mention something of Indians, I beg that I may not be understood as framing apologies for _all_ Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He seemed to be framing a question with his lips. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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