FRAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does framing mean? 

• FRAMING (noun)
  The noun FRAMING has 2 senses:

1. formulation of the plans and important details

2. a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror

  Familiarity information: FRAMING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formulation of the plans and important details

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the framing of judicial decrees

Hypernyms ("framing" is a kind of...):

conceptualisation; conceptualization; formulation (inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally)

Derivation:

frame (make up plans or basic details for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

frame; framing

Context example:

the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held

Hypernyms ("framing" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Derivation:

frame (enclose in or as if in a frame)

frame (enclose in a frame, as of a picture)

 Context examples 

All the rest of the night I tossed and tumbled, framing theory after theory, each more unlikely than the last.

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

I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me: I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once declare and rivet the spell.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And he was worth seeing, too, especially on a winter’s night when the red glare of the forge would beat upon his great muscles and upon the proud, hawk-face of Boy Jim as they heaved and swayed over some glowing plough coulter, framing themselves in sparks with every blow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went on with my day's business tranquilly; but ever and anon vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit Thornfield; and I kept involuntarily framing advertisements and pondering conjectures about new situations: these thoughts I did not think to check; they might germinate and bear fruit if they could.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I listened long: suddenly I discovered that my ear was wholly intent on analysing the mingled sounds, and trying to discriminate amidst the confusion of accents those of Mr. Rochester; and when it caught them, which it soon did, it found a further task in framing the tones, rendered by distance inarticulate, into words.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)