Fred vs Framework - What's the difference?
fred | framework |
A short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name.
(military, slang) Nickname for the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, widely used by USAF aircrews.
(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
(figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
(figuratively, especially in, computing) A basic conceptual structure.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=John T. Jost
, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(literally) The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.
As a proper noun Fred
is a short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name.As a noun framework is
The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.fred
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* 1892 Robert Grant: The Reflections of a Married Man . Scribner,1892. pages 98-99: *: When I referred to the confusion which would result from the presence in the house of two people with the same name, she tossed her head and said it would be easy to obviate that by calling me Frederick instead of Fred . - - - Imagine Harry Bolles and other kindred spirits calling me stiff, august Frederick! I vowed that this should not be brought to pass - - - * 2002 Fred Hill: You May as Well Laugh: The Columns of Fred Hill . iUniverse ISBN 0595256848 page 59: *: I had great parents, but they made one major mistake. They named me Fred'. I'm sorry in case other '''Freds''' read this, but ' Fred is a rather weak name. It just sort of fades away on the tongue. It's not positive like Matt or Jim or Mike or Luke. English diminutives of male given names ----framework
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(wikipedia framework)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
- These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.