FRAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does framed mean? 

• FRAMED (adjective)
  The adjective FRAMED has 1 sense:

1. provided with a frame

  Familiarity information: FRAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with a frame

Context example:

there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk

Antonym:

unframed (not provided with a frame)

 Context examples 

The next thing wanted was to get the picture framed; and here were a few difficulties.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Terror—not beauty—was what sprang first to the eye as our fair visitor stood framed for an instant in the open door.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never had he so loftily framed a lofty thought.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All was in keeping with a solemn butler who appeared framed in the pink radiance of a tinted electrical light behind him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An older breed of American domestic pig, the Duroc breed is of medium length with a muscular, large-framed body.

(Duroc Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

He hesitated while he groped in his vocabulary and framed a complete answer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You were thinking that if the portrait were framed it would just cover that bare space and correspond with Gordon’s picture over there.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The latter part was altogether framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while she was carrying me to court.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)