form
IPA: fˈɔrm
noun
- (heading, physical) To do with shape.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- (philosophy) 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.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- (dated) A long bench with no back.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- (social) To do with structure or procedure.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- (archaic) A class or rank in society.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- Level of performance.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- The den or home of a hare.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- Acronym of family, occupation, recreation, motivation: a set of potential topics of conversation for use by salespeople etc. [(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.]
verb
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (electrical, historical, transitive) 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.
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Examples of "form" in Sentences
- It was always a stopover form to the mecha form.
- This is a special form of disjunctive normal form.
- I still await some form of PERSONAL **not form** answer.
- The comparative and the superlative form are formed analytically.
- The red family of circles in the figure form a pencil of this type.
- The definite form of the participle is identical to the plural form.
- A republic is the proper title of the fourth type of governmental form.
- The first is a predisposition in the form of a type of optic disc shape.
- This type of synaptic regulation forms the basis of synaptic plasticity.
- At the moment virtually all of the people categories are in the adjective form.
- Calcite exhibits several twinning types adding to the variety of observed forms.
- What is real is the continual _change of_ form: _form is only a snapshot view of a transition_.
- Was the form of slavery which our professor pronounces innocent _the form_ witnessed by our Savior "in Judea?"
- The relation between matter and form, or between _content and form_, as it is generally called, is one of the most disputed questions in
- But they will never do it; for, in their eyes, spoliation is a principle of hatred and disorder, and the most particularly odious form which it can assume is _the legal form_.
- It is clear that the main point of the question does not lie in organic matter or in organic form, but in organic _motion_, for even the specific of the organic _form_ originates only first through _organic motion of life_.
- These experiments merely indicate that _the parent form possesses more potential characters than it can give expression to in a single individual form_, some of them being necessarily latent or hidden, and that when these latent ones show themselves they must do so at the expense of others which become latent or hidden in their turn.
- In her trial, Patrick used a fish-oil-based essential fatty acid from Nordic Naturals that consisted of 225mg of Omega-3 (E.A and DHA), 33mg of Omega-6 (GLA) and 15 IU of Vitamin E. Nordic Naturals fish oils are of the highest quality and all Nordic Naturals fish oils are in their natural triglyceride form*, which is the optimum form for the body to absorb and use.
- The olden transcendentalist dragged on in barren cells and dreary poverty in order not to divert his glorified vision of the formless by the beauty of the _ever present form_; the modern transcendentalist brings his higher laws into play, conquers his poverty and commands around himself the beauty and luxury and freedom of the world of form, and it speaks to him in matchless raiment, luxuriant flowers, gems, material comforts and soft ease.