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framer

/ˈfreɪmər/
/ˈfreɪmə/
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Other forms: framers

One kind of framer builds the structure that holds up a house or surrounds a window. The other kind of framer comes up with the ideas that form the structure of a concept or plan.

Before a house can be constructed, it needs a frame, the structural elements (usually made of wood) that hold the rest of it up. Framers are carpenters who build out these basic components. Someone who makes a frame for a painting, photograph, or poster is also a framer. The Framers of the U.S. Constitution were the 55 delegates who contributed to and shaped — or framed — the document that is still the country's supreme law.

Definitions of framer
  1. noun
    someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
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    type of:
    skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
    a worker who has acquired special skills
  2. noun
    someone who writes a new law or plan
    “the framers of the Constitution”
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    type of:
    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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