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framer

noun

  1. someone who makes picture frames for paintings or someone who assembles the major structural elements of a wood-framed building
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪmɚ/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English frame Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English framer From frame + -er.

  1. A person who makes frames for paintings.
  2. A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
  3. A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
  4. A person who writes a new law.
  5. A person who writes a new law.

    “the Framers of the Constitution”

    “In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.”

  6. A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
  7. A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.

    “The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.”