framer

/ˈfreɪmər/

/ˈfreɪmə/

Other forms: framers

One kind of framer builds the structure that holds up a house or surrounds a window. The other kind of framer comes up with the ideas that form the structure of a concept or plan.

Before a house can be constructed, it needs a frame, the structural elements (usually made of wood) that hold the rest of it up. Framers are carpenters who build out these basic components. Someone who makes a frame for a painting, photograph, or poster is also a framer. The Framers of the U.S. Constitution were the 55 delegates who contributed to and shaped — or framed — the document that is still the country's supreme law.

Definitions of framer

1. noun

   someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
   type of:

   skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker

   a worker who has acquired special skills
2. noun

   someone who writes a new law or plan
   “the framers of the Constitution”

   type of:

   author, writer

   a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)