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What is the verb for framework?

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frame
  1. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
  2. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
  3. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
  4. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
  5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
  6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
  7. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
  8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
  9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
  10. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
  12. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
  15. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
  16. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
  17. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
  18. Synonyms:
  19. Examples:
    1. “Students were asked to calculate how much framing material was required to frame several pictures.”
      “That's the basis on which we shall frame our policy for the next general election.”
      “Develop an understanding of your target audience when you want to frame a strategy for marketing your brand.”
frames
framed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of frame
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He has purchased a wide range of artwork, including colorful, cartoonish prints and wild abstracts framed in austere black mouldings.”
      “When the rope got waterlogged, they lugged more of the heavy framed canvases up the stairs.”
      “The bright red walls are framed between cream-colored wainscoting and picture rails.”
framing
  1. present participle of frame
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Up and down the coastal villages of Scotland you will see the jawbones of whales, framing entrance ways and guarding churches.”
      “He nodded, a full, thick head of jet black hair framing his face like a B-list Breugel.”
      “The Doric architrave framing the door and the carved cornice are both wood.”
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