Form (IPA: /ˈfɔɹm/)
| form (n.) |
A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. |
| Form (n.) |
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. |
| Form (n.) |
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. |
| Form (n.) |
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. |
| Form (n.) |
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. |
| Form (n.) |
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. |
| Form (n.) |
A shape; an image; a phantom. |
| Form (n.) |
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. |
| Form (n.) |
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. |
| Form (n.) |
The seat or bed of a hare. |
| Form (n.) |
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. |
| Form (n.) |
The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. |
| Form (n.) |
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. |
| Form (n.) |
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. |
| Form (n.) |
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. |
| Form (n.) |
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. |
| Form (n.) |
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. |
| Form (n.) |
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. |
| Form (n.) |
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. |
| Form (n.) |
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. |
| Form (n.) |
To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. |
| Form (n.) |
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. |
| Form (v. i.) |
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column. |
| Form (v. i.) |
To run to a form, as a hare. |
| Form |
Class or grouping of students in a school at the same academic level |
| Form |
One of the secondary taxonomic ranks, below that of variety, in botanical nomenclature |
| Form |
Document with blank spaces/fields for insertion of required or requested information. A device for collecting data. |
| Form |
Way in which the elements of an art work are organised in contrast to its content |
| Form |
Form of lexeme |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " (to the students) Form across the room! Run, run, run! Don't keep me waiting! FILL THIS GAP!" - Matilda (film) |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " (Vampire Soldier in Background): Form two groups. You, douse them in fuel." - Underworld: Evolution |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [Cursed Seal Form 2 emerges] There's no question that you were special... Unfortunately, you're not quite as special as I am." - Naruto |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [War] is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft." - War |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike." - Democracy |
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