Word: form Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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". Pronunciation: /fɔːm/, /fɔɹm/, [fo̞ɹm], /fo(ː)ɹm/ 1. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable Example: 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. Example: 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. 2. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 3. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 4. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 5. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 6. To do with shape. Labels: countable, dated, physical, uncountable Example: And there with syr Launcelot wrapped his mantel aboute his arme wel and surely and by thenne they had geten a grete fourme oute of the halle and there with all they rasshed at the dore […]. Example: In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d. 7. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 8. To do with shape. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable 9. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. Example: [H]e sprang into the road, without previously going through the empty form of advising the driver of his intention, to pick [his hat] up. 11. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a republican form of government 12. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a matter of mere form Example: Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. 13. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: ladies of a high form 14. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks. Example: As for the notion that it’s not how Sunak would have won, that doesn’t mean a whole lot coming from a guy whose recent form includes losing to Liz Truss. 15. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The team's form has been poor this year. Example: The orchestra was on top form this evening. 16. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 17. To do with structure or procedure. Labels: UK, countable, dated, uncountable Example: Nathaniel: Maister, there is nobody to teach in the sixth form. Maister: What a thing is this? N: He is sick in bed. M: How do you know? N: One of the scholars in his house told me so. Example: I am a very weak, insufficient scholar, sitting on the lowest form in Thy great school-house, which is the whole world, and trying to spell out the mere letters of Thy alphabet […] 18. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To apply for the position, complete the application form. 19. A specimen document to be copied or imitated. Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: participial forms; verb forms 21. The den or home of a hare. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme[…]. Example: 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. 22. A window or dialogue box. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project. 23. An infraspecific rank. Labels: countable, uncountable 24. The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed. 25. A quantic. Labels: countable, uncountable 26. A specific way of performing a movement. Labels: countable, uncountable