form
nounEtymology
From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”). In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".
Definitions
To do with shape.
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
To do with structure or procedure.
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- To apply for the position, complete the application form.
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A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- participial forms; verb forms
The den or home of a hare.
- Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme[…].
- The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
- Hares left their snug ‘forms’ in the cold grass.
A window or dialogue box.
- While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.
- Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
An infraspecific rank.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in…
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
- And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.
A quantic.
A specific way of performing a movement.
To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
To take shape.
- When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
To put together or bring into being
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
- Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
- the diplomatic politicians[…]who formed by far the majority
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
- 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 'Tis education forms the common mind.
- Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
- The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one…
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
Acronym of family, occupation, recreation, motivation, a set of potential topics of…
Acronym of family, occupation, recreation, motivation, a set of potential topics of conversation for use by salespeople etc.
The neighborhood
- synonymphysique
- synonymshape
- synonymmakeup
- synonymcomposition
- synonymf.
- synonymtransmogrify
- synonymtake shape
- synonymcome into being
- synonymmake up
- synonymcompose
- synonymforshape
- synonymform
- antonymdeform
- antonymdistort
- antonymdisfigure
- antonymmisshape
- antonymwrest
- antonymbuckle
- antonymcontort
- antonymtwist
- antonymwarp
- antonymwrithe
- neighborformal
- neighborformula
- neighborformulaic
- neighborformulate
- neighborformulation
- neighborinform
- neighborformat
- neighborformation
- neighboralter
- neighbormanipulate
- neighbormetamorphose
- neighbortransform
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA