form.
To do with shape.
Meaning & usage
To do with shape. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
To do with shape. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
To do with shape. Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
To do with shape. The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
To do with shape. Characteristics not involving atomic components.
To do with shape. A long bench with no back.
To do with shape. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
To do with shape. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
To do with structure or procedure. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
To do with structure or procedure. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
To do with structure or procedure. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
a republican form of government
To do with structure or procedure. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
a matter of mere form
To do with structure or procedure. A class or rank in society.
To do with structure or procedure. Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
To do with structure or procedure. Level of performance.
To do with structure or procedure. A class or year of school pupils.
To do with structure or procedure. A numbered division grouping school students (usually every two years) in education between Years 1 and 13 (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the form, as in sixth form).
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.
A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
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.
A window or dialogue box.
An infraspecific rank.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
A quantic.
A specific way of performing a movement.
Where this word comes from
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".
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; 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.
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
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.
Where this word comes from
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".
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