Form Definition
fôrm
formed, forming, forms
noun
forms
The shape, outline, or configuration of anything; structure as apart from color, material, etc.
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The body or figure of a person or animal.
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A model of the human figure, esp. one used to display or fit clothes.
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A mold for the setting of concrete.
American Heritage
Anything used to give shape to something else; mold; specif., a temporary structure of boards or metal into which concrete is poured to set.
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Synonyms:
verb
formed, forming, forms
To give shape or form to; fashion; make, as in some particular way.
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To make or fashion by shaping.
Form figures out of clay.
American Heritage
To develop (habits)
Webster's New World
To think of; frame in the mind; conceive.
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To arrange oneself in.
Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- act as
- figure in
- make up
- constitute
- imprint
- shape-up
- fall-into-place
- be finalized
- become visible
- assume definite characteristics
- eventuate
- materialize
- mature
- unfold
- develop
suffix
Having the form of.
Plexiform.
American Heritage
affix
Having the form of; shaped like.
Dentiform.
Webster's New World
Having (a specified number of) forms.
Triform.
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idiom
good (<i>or</i> bad) form
- conduct in (or not in) accord with social custom
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Form
- good (or bad) form
Origin of Form
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From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), from Old French forme, from Latin forma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”)
From Wiktionary
Middle English forme from Latin fōrma possibly (via Etruscan) from Greek morphē
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
New Latin -fōrmis from Latin fōrma form
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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OFr -forme < L forma, form
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
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