noun
Meaning 1
A person who makes frames for paintings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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framer
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US: /ˈfɹeɪmɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: F R EY1 M ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
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noun
Meaning 3
A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 4
A person who writes a new law.
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, capitalized, historical, plural-normally, sometimes
Topics: government, politics
Examples
- the Framers of the Constitution
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noun
Meaning 6
A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
Meaning 8
someone who writes a new law or plan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the framers of the Constitution
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Broader terms: writer, author
noun
Meaning 9
someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
History
Etymology
From frame + -er.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Italian: corniciaio — picture framer
- Polish: ramiarz — picture framer
- Swedish: rammakare — picture framer
- Turkish: çerçeveci — picture framer
- Ottoman Turkish: چرچوهجی (çerçeveci) — picture framer
- Swedish: timmerman — timber framer
- Turkish: çerçeveci — timber framer
- Ottoman Turkish: چرچوهجی (çerçeveci) — timber framer
- German: Gesetzgeber — legislator
- German: Gesetzgeberin — legislator
- German: Gesetzschreiber — legislator
- Swedish: lagstiftare — legislator