1. A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.
2. an external work platform; a scaffold.
3. A fundamental structure, as for a written work.
4. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.

1. the arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
2. the larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
3. A basic conceptual structure.
4. the identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

1. the work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything.
2. work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

1. A structure or fabric for inclosing or supporting anything; a frame; a skeleton: as, the framework of a building; the bones are the framework of the body.
2. structure; constitution; adjusted arrangement; system.
3. A kind of fancy work made with yarn of silk or worsted drawn across a frame in two directions, and knotted or otherwise secured at the intersections, producing reticulated patterns, sometimes of considerable elaboration.
4. spinning done on a throstleor ring-frame; also, knitting done on a stocking-frame.

1. a structure supporting or containing something
2. a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
3. the underlying structure