framer
nounUS /ˈfɹeɪmɚ/
Etymology From frame + -er.
7 senses
- 1A person who makes frames for paintings.
- 2A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
- 3A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
- 4A person who writes a new law.
- 5Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention…
- 6A person who frames another, attempting to have them…
- 7A person who embeds another person's web pages in an…
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A person who makes frames for paintings.
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A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
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US A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
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A person who writes a new law.
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Government, Politics US, Capitalized, Historical, Plural normally, Sometimes Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- 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.2025 February 7, David Smith, quoting Lawrence R. Jacobs, “‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
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Internet 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.2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116:
- Coordinate terms
- framee