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form Definition


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form1
noun
    1. Shape.
      Thesaurus: shape, figure, arrangement, outline, configuration, formation, structure, construction, framework.
    2. Figure or outward appearance.
    3. Kind, type, variety or manifestation.
    4. A document with printed text and spaces for the insertion of information.
    5. A way, especially the correct way, of doing or saying something.
      Thesaurus: method, plan, way, manner, mode, custom, format, style, procedure.
    6. Structure and organization in a piece of writing or work of art.
    7. One's potential level of performance, eg in sport.
      Example: soon find your form again
    8. Any of the ways that a word can be spelt or grammatically inflected.
      Example: the past tense form
    9. A school class.
    10. A bench.
    11. slang
      A criminal record.
    12. A hare's burrow.
verb formed, forming
    1. To organize or set something up.
    intr
    2. To come into existence; to take shape.
    3. To shape; to make (a shape).
    4. To take on the shape or function of something.
    5. To make up; to constitute.
      Thesaurus: constitute, compose, make up, figure in, serve as, act as.
    6. To develop.
      Example: form a relationship
    7. To influence or mould someone or something.
      Example: the environment that formed him
      Thesaurus: influence, mould, pattern, model, arrange, make, fashion, construct, devise, design, contrive, invent, erect.
    8. To construct, inflect grammatically or pronounce (a word).
Derivative: formable
adj
    Derivative: forming
    noun
      Idiom: good form (bad form)
        Polite or impolite social behaviour.
          Example: That really is bad form
      Idiom: in good form
        In good spirits or health.
      Idiom: a matter of form
        A case of a procedure being gone through for the sake of legality or convention.
      Idiom: on form (off form)
        Performing well or badly.
      Idiom: take form
        To come into existence; to begin to have shape.
      Idiom: true to form
        In the usual, typical or characteristic way.
      Etymology: 13c: from Latin forma shape or model.




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      forme
      form
      noun
        1. printing.
          The type and blocks assembled in a chase3, ready for printing.
      Etymology: 15c: variant of form1.



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