form
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
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media
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
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printing
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publishing
sciences
sports
taxonomy
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".
Inflected forms:
form: forms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: form
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: form
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: form
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: formest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: formedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: forms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: formeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: form
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: form
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: form
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: forming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: 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.
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
physical
uncountable
examples: 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 […].
In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.
I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside[…].
The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms, as benches used to be called.
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Those whom form of laws
 Condemned to die.
[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.
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a republican form of government
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a matter of mere form
Though well we may not pass upon his life
 Without the form of justice.
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: ladies of a high form
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: To do with structure or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: 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.
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 […]
One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in?[…]"
From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
gloss: A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To apply for the position, complete the application form.
gloss: A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: participial forms;  verb forms
gloss: The den or home of a hare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A window or dialogue box.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An infraspecific rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.
gloss: A quantic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A specific way of performing a movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
gloss: To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
gloss: To take shape.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
gloss: To put together or bring into being; assemble.
pos: verb
examples: The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
gloss: To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
gloss: To constitute, to compose, to make up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
the diplomatic politicians[…]who formed by far the majority
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
gloss: To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To provide (a hare) with a form.
pos: verb
examples: The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
Synonyms: makeup
f.
transmogrify
take shape
make up
forshape
form
mold
shape
turn
beshape
Antonyms: deform
distort
disfigure
misshape
wrest
buckle
contort
twist
warp
writhe
Related words: formal
formula
formulaic
formulate
formulation
inform
format
formation
Derived words: ABA form
absolute form
algebraic normal form
alloform
antiform
apoform
application form
arc-form pearly mussel
argument form
argument-form
art form
attack is the best form of defence
attack is the best form of defense
back-form
Backus-Naur form
Backus normal form
bad form
base form
basic form
beamform
bedform
best form lens
bilinear form
bioform
book form
bound form
Boyce-Codd normal form
breast form
by-form
byform
canonical conjunctive normal form
canonical disjunctive normal form
canonical form
Carlson symmetric form
citation form
claim form
clausal normal form
closed form
closing form
cloudform
collateral form
column echelon form
combining form
conjunctive normal form
count form
crudeform
crude form
cusp form
cytoform
dictionary form
differential form
disjunctive normal form
dress form
echelon form
e-form
eigenform
expanded form
extensive form game
Extraordinary Form
extraordinary form
fifth normal form
first fundamental form
first normal form
form book
formbook
form class
form-critical
form criticism
formfactor
form factor
form feed
formfilling
form filling
formfitting
form-fitting
formful
form genera
form genus
formless
form letter
formlike
formline
form of address
form of government
form-room
form room
form setter
formstone
form taxon
formwise
formwork
fourth normal form
free form
free-form
geoform
G-form
Girard form class
glycoform
godform
good form
growth form
handform
have form
hesitation form
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
in any shape or form
in form
in full form
ing-form
in rare form
interform
isoform
jumpform
Killing form
landform
Legendre form
letterform
leuco form
life form
life-form
lifeform
linear form
logic form
longform
long-form
lupoid form of groin ulceration
megaform
metalloform
microform
mid-season form
mid season form
midseason form
modular form
morphoform
multiform
multilinear form
nanoform
newform
nitroform
normal form
normal form game
one-form
on form
on rare form
order form
ordinary form
outform
out of form
pet form
phosphoform
planform
point form
polyform
polynomial form
poor form
postform
preform
prenex normal form
presentation form
prime form
printing form
pro-form
protoform
pseudoform
quadratic form
racing form
reduced row echelon form
re-form
return to form
ring sum normal form
rise form
row echelon form
second normal form
short form
shortform
sialoform
sideform
sixth form college
slipform
sonata-allegro form
sonata form
splice form
springform
standard form
Sturm-Liouville form
subform
synform
ternary form
T form
T-form
thermoform
third normal form
thoughtform
thought-form
true to form
turn something into an art form
two-form
typeform
underlying form
ur-form
value-form
verbform
vertex form
V-form
V form
waveform
webform
wireform
wordform
xform
foreform
malform
cold forming
colony-forming unit
disform
fireform
formability
formable
habit-forming
misform
orbital forming
rollform
skin forming alloy
star-forming
unform
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