framer

English

Etymology

From frame +‎ -er.

Noun

framer (plural framers)

1. A person who makes frames for paintings.
2. A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
3. (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
4. A person who writes a new law.
   1. (historical, US politics, sometimes capitalized, usually in the plural) Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

      the Framers of the Constitution

      • 2025 February 7, David Smith, quoting Lawrence R. Jacobs, “‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

        In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.

5. A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
6. (Internet) 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.
   • 2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• framee

Translations

picture framer

• Italian: corniciaio (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: چرچوه‌جی (çerçeveci)
• Swedish: rammakare c
• Turkish: çerçeveci (tr)

timber framer

• Ottoman Turkish: چرچوه‌جی (çerçeveci)
• Swedish: timmerman (sv) c
• Turkish: çerçeveci (tr)

legislator

• German: Gesetzgeber (de) m, Gesetzgeberin (de) f, Gesetzschreiber m
• Swedish: lagstiftare (sv) c

Further reading

• framer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Constitutional Convention (United States) § Framers of the Constitution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “framer”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “framer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “framer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Farmer, farmer