Framer
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who makes frames for paintings.
- 2 someone who writes a new law or plan wordnet
- 3 A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
- 4 someone who makes frames (as for pictures) wordnet
- 5 A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building. US
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- 6 A person who writes a new law.
- 7 A person who writes a new law.; Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. US, capitalized, historical, plural-normally, sometimes
"the Framers of the Constitution"
- 8 A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
- 9 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. Internet
"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."
Example
More examples"With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare."
Etymology
From frame + -er.
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