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framing fram·ing

Spelling: [frey-ming]

IPA: /ˈfreɪ mɪŋ/

Framing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in framing (afgimnr).

Definitions for framing

noun

1. the act, process, or manner of constructing anything.
2. the act of providing with a frame.
3. a frame or a system of frames; framework.
4. a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
5. a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.
6. a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique:
7. a structure for admitting or enclosing something:
8. Usually, frames. (used with a plural verb) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.
9. form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.
10. a particular state, as of the mind:
11. Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.
12. Television. a single traversal by the electron beam of all the scanning lines on a television screen. In the U.S. this is a total of 525 lines traversed in 1/30 (0.033) second. Compare field (def 19).
13. Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.
14. Bowling. one of the ten divisions of a game. one of the squares on the scorecard, in which the score for a given frame is recorded.
15. Pool. rack1 (def 3).
16. Baseball. an inning.
17. Slang. a frame-up.
18. enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.
19. the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.
20. Nautical. any of a number of transverse, riblike members for supporting and stiffening the shell of each side of a hull. any of a number of longitudinal members running between web frames to support and stiffen the shell plating of a metal hull.
21. a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production:
22. Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.
23. Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.
24. in frame, Shipbuilding. (of a hull) with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.

verb (used with object)

1. to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.
2. to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem:
3. to conceive or imagine, as an idea.
4. Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc.
5. to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.
6. to give utterance to:
7. to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.
8. to fashion or shape:
9. to shape or adapt to a particular purpose:
10. Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.
11. to adjust (film) in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.
12. to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.
13. Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.
2. Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.

Origin of framing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at frame, -ing¹

Examples for framing

In this Diet, the framing of a commercial code was proposed.

Two officers were charged with the framing of these together.

So how is that framing usage relevant to the decision in McCutcheon?

I think that our only safety will be in first framing certain models for composers.

And yes, Republicans still have a lot of work to do framing a message that appeals to a majority of Americans.

The framing is similar, and in both, the depiction of the male body is that of a graceful carving.

The framing was that I had the power to stop a criminal by putting him behind bars through direct eyewitness testimony.

Naturally, most major media outlets are framing this game as Manning-Brady XV.

It is suitable for framing or may be hung on the wall with ribbon.

The sentences were not of his framing; the ideas were utterly foreign to him.