framework

cadre, structure

Ensemble d’idées ou de règles de base servant à organiser ou à développer quelque chose.

En anglais simple : A set of basic ideas or rules used to organize or develop something.

• We need a framework for our plan.
• The law provides a framework for protecting children.
• Their ideas helped build a new framework for teaching.

Comment l'utiliser : a framework for something (The agreement provides a framework for future talks.); within a framework (The research takes place within a clear theoretical framework.)

Synonymes : structure, system

Expressions courantes : framework for something, legal framework, within a framework, conceptual framework

ossature, charpente

Ensemble de pièces reliées qui soutiennent un bâtiment, un véhicule ou un autre objet et lui donnent sa forme.

En anglais simple : The connected parts that support a building, vehicle, or other object and give it its shape.

• The building has a steel framework.
• Workers repaired the wooden framework of the roof.
• Only the framework remained after the fire.

Comment l'utiliser : the framework of something (The framework of the roof is made of wood.)

Synonymes : frame, skeleton

Expressions courantes : steel framework, wooden framework, framework of something