different between framework vs cradling

English

Etymology

From frame +? -work.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?e?m.w??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?e?m.w?k/

Noun

framework (plural frameworks)

1. (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
2. (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
3. (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
4. (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.

   These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

5. (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.

   Hyponyms: architectural framework, entity framework, software framework

6. (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.

Derived terms

• framework agreement

Translations

Further reading

• framework on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Verb

cradling

1. present participle of cradle

   The woman was cradling the baby in the crook of her arm as she fed it.

Noun

cradling (plural cradlings)

1. The act by which one cradles a child etc.
   • 1967, Stuart A. Altmann, Social communication among primates

     About four thousand cradlings were observed among five mother-infant pairs during the first 15 weeks of each infant's life.

2. The act of using a cradle (the tool).
3. (coopering) The cutting of a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterwards united and rehooped.
4. (carpentry) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)