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Framing and Devising

noun

  • Formulation of the plans and important details.
    • usage: "the framing of judicial decrees"
  • A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror.
    • usage: "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"

verb

  • Enclose in or as if in a frame.
    • usage: "frame a picture"
  • Enclose in a frame, as of a picture.
  • Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
    • usage: "I was set up"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
  • Formulate in a particular style or language.
    • usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
  • Make up plans or basic details for.
    • usage: "frame a policy"
  • Construct by fitting or uniting parts together.

noun

  • The act that results in something coming to be.
    • usage: "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"

verb

  • Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
    • usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
  • Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
    • usage: "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
  • Give by will, especially real property.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Devise.