framer

English

noun
Definitions
  • A person who makes frames for paintings.
  • A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
  • (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
  • A person who writes a new law.
  • A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
  • (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.

Etymology

Suffix from English frame.

Origin

English

frame

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