framers
Picture mount craftspeople
Framers are people who construct frames—for buildings, pictures, or ideas.
A picture framer builds the wooden or metal border around artwork.
In construction, framers assemble the skeletal structure of houses.
Most distinctively, the Framers refers to those who drafted the U.S.
Constitution: The Framers intended the Senate to temper popular passions.
This capitalized sense dominates American political and legal discourse.
Those who begin institutions
- delegatesChosen representatives or assigns
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- PhiladelphiaPennsylvania's largest metropolis
- 1787Year Constitution was written
federalism · ratification · amendments · Bill of Rights · preamble · Constitution · separation of powers · checks and balances
founders
Those who begin institutions
- delegatesChosen representatives or assigns
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- PhiladelphiaPennsylvania's largest metropolis
1787 · federalism · ratification · amendments · Bill of Rights · preamble · Constitution · separation of powers · checks and balances · republicanism
joinery
Fitting wood pieces together
timber · lumber · construction · hammer · nails · saw · measuring · level · square · blueprint
matting
Woven protective surface
mount · gilding · gallery · conservation · shadowbox · bezels · corners · mitering · rabbet · glazing
- constructionconstruction site, building site, hammer, building, beam
- foundersfounders, founder, co-founders, cofounders, co-founder
- founding historyfounders, charter, constitution, declaration, inception
- constitutional lawConstitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment
- constitutionsbill of rights, constitutional amendment, constitutional reform, clause, clauses
- Founding FathersGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton
framersfinishers
Those who conclude tasks
painters · demolition crews · cabinet makers · cabinetmakers · drywallers
framersinterpreters
Oral language mediators
abolitionists · secessionists · amenders · revolutionaries · inheritors
- picture frameDecorative border for images
- time frameDesignated period for completion
- door frameEntry's structural surround
- bed frameMattress-supporting structure
- frame of mindOne's current mental attitude
- freeze frameHalted motion picture image
frame, framework, framed, frames, framer, frameworks, reframe, unframed, reframed