Word Finder - framing

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To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

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To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

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To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

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Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

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Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.

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Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.

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To position visually within a fixed boundary.

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The director frames the fishing scene very well.

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To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.

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How would you frame your accomplishments?

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Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.

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The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.

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To wash ore with the aid of a frame.

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To move.

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To proceed; to go.

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To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).

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To strengthen; refresh; support.

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To execute; perform.

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All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth.

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To cause; to bring about; to produce.

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To profit; avail.

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To fit; accord.

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To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

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The placing of a picture, etc. in a frame.

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The placing of something in context.

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This method can only be carried out in still water, and where strong and tight framing can be built which will prevent the concrete from escaping.

We now arrive at the period when the doctrine of organic evolution was established by Darwin, and when naturalists, being convinced by him as they had not been by the transmutationists of fifty years' earlier date, were compelled to take an entirely new view of the significance of all attempts at framing a " natural " classification.

His right of recommending measures to the legislature (which does not formally include that of framing and presenting bills, but practically permits him to have a bill prepared and use all his influence on its behalf) is of greater value according to the extent to which he leads the public opinion of his state.

Thus it comes that comparatively slight use is made of the experience of the permanent financial officials in the framing of revenue-raising and appropriation bills.

But concrete is hampered by the fact that the surface always has to be formed by means of wooden or other framing, and in the case of thin walls or floors this framing becomes a serious item, involving expense and delay.

The actual framing of the British North America Act, into which the resolutions of these two conferences were consolidated, was carried out at the Westminster Palace Hotel in London, during December 1866 and January 1867, by delegates from all the provinces working in co-operation with the law officers of the Crown, under the presidency of Lord Carnarvon, then secretary of state for the colonies.

As chairman of the House Banking Committee he was active in framing and passing the Federal Reserve Bank Law.

The council of Trent, in its first period, seemed to increase the reputation of the Society; for the pope chose Laynez, Faber and Salmeron to act as his theologians in that assembly, and in this capacity they had no little influence in framing its decrees.

A new Congress, having resolved itself into a constituent assembly, followed up this Centralist policy (Dec. 30, 1836) by framing a new constitution, the Siete Leyes or Seven Laws, which converted the states into departments, ruled by governors appointed by the central authority, and considerably reduced popular representation.

One of the few drawbacks of concrete is that, unlike brickwork or masonry, it has nearly always to be deposited within moulds or framing which give it the required shape, and which are removed after it is set.

At Copenhagen his advisers were busy framing drafts of a Lex Regia Perpetua; and the one which finally won the royal favour was the famous Kongelov, or " King's Law."

By his editio princeps of the Samaritan Pentateuch and Targum, in the Paris Polyglott, he gave the first impulse in Europe to the study of this dialect, which he acquired without a teacher (framing a grammar for himself) by the study of MSS.

The arrangement of the building and floor framings is in a great measure governed by the architectural effect sought and by the arrangement and proper planning of the interior according to the intended uses; the positions of columns, girders and floor beams are usually the result of particular requirements, and unless complicated and expensive framing is to be expected the distance between columns must be kept within the limits of simple girder construction.

In the arrangement shown there are three equal sheaves in each block, and each set turns on a pin secured in the framing.

Profiting by their experience, it succeeded in framing and passing a measure reconstituting the regular militia, which obtained general approval.

For Gladstone, in framing his budget, had contemplated a continuance of peace, and the country was, unhappily, already drifting into war.

Lord Palmerston, however, with some tact postponed the controversy for the time by obtaining the appointment of a committee to search for precedents; and, after the report of the committee, he moved a series of resolutions affirming the right of the Commons to grant aids and supplies as their exclusive privilege, stating that the occasional rejection of financial measures by the Lords had always been regarded with peculiar jealousy, but declaring that the Comnions had the remedy in their own hands by so framing bills of supply as to secure their acceptance.

Above all he was instrumental in framing the new criminal code, based on more humanitarian principles, which was issued in 1835.

There is no logical connexion between this theory and the doctrine that appetite of desire has always pleasure (or the absence of pain) for its object; but a materialist, framing a system of psychology, will naturally direct his attention to the impulses arising out of bodily wants, whose obvious end is the preservation of the agent's organism; and this, together with a philosophic wish to simplify, may lead him to the conclusion that all human impulses are similarly self-regarding.

The forest and coast tribes make their dwellings chiefly of wood framing filled in with the leaf-stalks of the traveller's tree, with the leaves themselves forming the roof covering.

The legislature of 1909 also provided for open election primaries and for the framing of state party platforms by convention before the time of the primary.

To the left, a ruined abbey, its empty arches framing sky; to the right, a lonely monument on a hill.

These two books between them stand like pillars of a proscenium arch, framing the perspectives of the looming twentieth century.

Sometimes just framing a song in a series of unhurried guitar arpeggios.

Tall panel framing with arch braces visible at rear.

Native cedar was in short supply as early as 1620, and stone buildings were encouraged, using cedar for framing and trim.

Mr Brown should stop framing his concerns about Europe in such a way that he becomes a cheerleader for British Euroscepticism.

The Sussex models are constructed using tongue and groove shiplap cladding upon a 27 x 45mm standard framing.

There is a twist ending, part of a framing story narrated by " Francis, " which I will not reveal.

The field of view is 100 %, enabling accurate framing.

Manufactured with a 27 x 32mm framing, this building is supplied complete with an OSB (resin bonded board) roof and floor.

It says, " the common security and defense policy shall include the progressive framing of a common Union defense policy.

Framed pieces are presented in bespoke ash framing sometimes incorporating a gilt slip inlay.

These boards had wooden framing which extended beyond the edges into brackets on the wooden side.

Even so, this amoral tone and semi-documentary look are given an extra, stylized dimension by precise framing and skillful lighting techniques.

A whole range of courses from felt making to timber framing based at ' The Warren ' in north Wales.

It soars right up to the ridge, with all the magnificent oak framing revealed.

In picture framing, filets of wood or card frames are placed around the item to prevent contact with the glazing.

Preview custom framing options online - all framing is handmade.

The inspiration is France, the construction American with steel framing.

The Guild recommends conservation framing for limited edition prints of moderate to high value.

The west end had close studded, timber framing with wattle and daub infill.

The audience enters to find bleak wire mesh framing a space which is bare apart from two wooden pallets.

Timber framing with whitewashed brick nogging, granite rubble stone plinth and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack.

Timber framing with granite rubble stone and red brick plinth and red brick nogging, in small part herringbone pattern.

Square paneled timber framing with painted brick nogging and part stone plinth.

The framing tree branches outlined the deeply rutted track in even more darkness.

She is on a dark sage green background with a pale sage green circular mount framing her.

The front elevation has a high rubble plinth with square paneled timber framing in the 2 left hand bays, closer studding to right.

Past enticing windows framing stunning vistas on to lush gardens.