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FRAMED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with a frame

Example:

there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk

Classified under:

Adjectives

Antonym:

unframed (not provided with a frame)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb frame

Credits

 Context examples: 

Lymphoid tissue is framed by a network of reticular fibers and may be diffuse, or densely aggregated.

(Lymphoid Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture.

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

None of the best rooms abutted on the road; and the narrow, heavily-framed old-fashioned windows, never cheerful under any circumstances, looked very dismal, close shut, and with their blinds always drawn down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having no ornaments fine enough for this important occasion, Amy looped her fleecy skirts with rosy clusters of azalea, and framed the white shoulders in delicate green vines.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A spear's length in front of them sat the spare and long-limbed figure of Black Simon, the Norwich fighting man, his fierce, deep-lined face framed in steel, and the silk guidon marked with the five scarlet roses slanting over his right shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I then framed and fixed a resolution.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then your eyes fixed themselves upon your newly framed picture of General Gordon, and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.

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

A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows.

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

There, framed in the doorway, was a tall and beautiful woman—the mysterious lodger of Bloomsbury.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They all agreed that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of nature, because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth.

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