Word Finder - framework

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A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.

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The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

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The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

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A basic conceptual structure.

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These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

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A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.

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The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

The framework would have to be redesigned now, but it wasn't thoroughly destroyed.

The framework is generally recognizable without difficulty.

She had entrusted him with the fragile framework of her dreams and he had stumbled.

Feudalism had performed a great service, during an age of disintegration, by maintaining a general framework of government, while allowing the locality to protect and care for itself.

The framework and case of the instrument must be completely non-metallic, else eddy currents induced in the supports will cause disturbing forces to act upon the movable coil.

The mica card is generally mounted on a brass framework, F F, with a brass cap, C, fitted with a sapphire centre and carrying four magnetized needles, N, N, N, N, as in fig.

The framework of this crown, bereft of its jewels, is in the possession of Lady Amherst of Hackney.

The Vallee Noire, so it seemed to me, was part and parcel of myself, the framework in which my life was set, the native costume that I had always worn - what worlds away from the silks and satins that are suited for the public stage.

The whole of the middle lamella or originally formed cell-wall separating one from another disappears before the adult state is reached, so that the walls of the hydroids consist of a framework of lignified bars, with open communication between the cell cavities.

He was the author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, a description of curiosities in a chorographical framework.

An arrangement of this kind for shifting the load from a large cage at one operation was introduced by Fowler at Hucknall, in Leicestershire, where the trains are received into a framework with a number of platforms corresponding to those of the cage, carried on the head of a plunger movable by hydraulic pressure in a vertical cylinder.

Originally furnished from fragments of various religions, it could increase or diminish this possession without rupturing its own elastic framework.

It is in prose; but the dialogue, interspersed with songs, is metrical, and is much more extensive than the prose framework.

The young shoots produced from the portion of the new wood retained are to form the framework of the bush tree, and must be dealt with as in the case of standard trees.

In some cases it has even been possible to recover the original arrangement of the garden beds, and to replant them accordingly, thus giving an appropriate framework to the statues, &c. with which the gardens were decorated, and which have been found in situ.

That of the limestone atriums (outer walls of the houses of ashlar-work of Sarno limestone, inner walls with framework of limestone blocks, filled in with small pieces of limestone).

Chariots are used in war, and fortified towns are built, though we must still suppose the houses to have consisted of a wooden framework coated with clay.

The framework of both is a narrative purporting to be written by Clement (of Rome) to St James, the Lord's brother, describing at the beginning his own conversion and the circumstances of his first acquaintance with St Peter, and then a long succession of incidents accompanying St Peter's discourses and disputations, leading up to a romantic recognition of Clement's father, mother and two brothers, from whom he had been separated since childhood.

Here we observe that (I) the extract agrees this time with Recognitions, not with Homilies; (2) its framework is that of the Clementine romance found in both; (3) the tenth and last book of Recognitions is here parallel to book xiv.

The mechanical work is obtained by movement resulting from a change, it is supposed, in the elastic tension of the framework of the living cell.

The historical framework contains traditions of the reconstruction and repair of temple and cult, of the hostility of southern peoples and their allies, and of conflicts between king and priests.

D's framework is to be recognized in iv.

If the cord be fixed to the framework at the point B, instead of being wound on a barrel, the velocity of W is half that of AF.

What was the fixed framework of the mechanism in one case becomes a moving link in an inversion.

In balancing the mechanism of a steam engine it is often sufficiently accurate to consider the motion of the pistons as simple harmonic, and the effect on the framework of the acceleration of the connecting rod may be approximately allowed for by distributing the weight of the rod between the crank pin and the piston inversely as the centre of gravity of the rod divides the distance between the centre of the cross head pin and the centre of the crank pin.

These speeches form the cardinal points in the action of the Iliad - the framework into which everything else is set; and they have also the best title to the name of Homer.

As regards Vishnu, the epic poems, including the supplement to the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa, supply practically the entire framework of legendary matter on which the later Vaishnava creeds are based.

In the article Midrash it will be seen that new teaching could justify itself by a reinterpretation of the old writings, and that the traditions of former authoritative figures could become the framework of a teaching considerably later than their age.

In Babylonia, however, learning still flourished, and with Rab Ashi (352-427) the arranging of the present framework of the Gemara may have been taken in hand.

Two of these rollers are supported in the same horizontal plane of the framework, while the third or top roller is kept in close contact by means of weights and springs acting on each end of the arbor.

Although the systematic framework of the thought and the terminology used are both derived from the Cartesian philosophy, the intellectual milieu of the time, the early work enables us, better than the Ethics to realize that the inspiration and starting-point of his thinking is to be found in the religious speculations of his Jewish predecessors.

On the sides and top of the lower chamber was a framework of timbers, which seems to indicate that the mound is of comparatively recent date.

The framework carrying the clamps is arranged so that a number of determinations may be made at one time, the wires from the clamps running from a rheostat, so arranged that currents of any strength may be used simultaneously.

The material of which the framework was built was thin steel tubing, exceedingly light.

Georgia pine - and a plank became entangled in the framework of the machine.

A wing is an outgrowth from the dorsal and pleural regions of the thoracic segment that bears it, and microscopic examination shows it to consist of a double layer of cuticularized skin, the two layers being in contact except where they are thickened and folded to form the firm tubular nervures, which serve as a supporting framework for the wing membrane, enclose air-tubes, and convey blood.

For the natural philosopher the whole point of view of things was changed; in biology not only had the anthropocentric point of view been banished, but the ancient concept of perpetual flux was brought home to ordinary men, and entered for good into the framework of thought.

The jarring chronological notices belong to the post-exilic framework of the book (see Genesis).

Its framework is composed essentially of four uprights, which rise from the corners of a square measuring loo metres on the side; thus the area it covers at its base is nearly 22 acres.

Bridges are made of posts, carrying a framework either covered with timber or with pine branches and earth.

So far as the Aristotelian framework is accepted we meet only minor corrections and extensions of a formal kind.

Apart from the adoption by Hume of the association of ideas as the explanatory formula of the school - it had been allowed by Malebranche within the framework of his mysticism and employed by Berkeley in his theory of vision - there are few fresh notes struck in the logic of sensationalism.

They could concede the triumphant achievement of science only with the proviso that it must be assumed to fall within the framework of their nominalism.

Its forms are not unseldom scaffolding for the house of knowledge rather than the framework of the house itself.

An iron framework is erected in the house, in which shrubs are planted and flowers cultivated to bloom in memory of the departed.

As the teaching and person of Jesus were fitted into the framework of the Greek philosophy, and the sacraments into y.

When one studies the history of Europe subject by subject, as indicated above, and not merely in a monastic chronicle of things in general, chosen according to the author's point of view, one sees the old-time framework passing away.

Hence one or both of the shafts must have a vibratory and unsteady motion, injurious to the mechanism and framework.

The mass of floating tradition, which had come down from early days, with its tales of border raids and forays, of valiant chiefs and deeds of patriotism, is now rudely fitted into a framework of a wholly different kind.

This framework consists of short notices of important events, wars, prodigies, consecration of temples, &c., all recorded with extreme brevity, precisely dated, and couched in a somewhat archaic style.