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The Meaning of form
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(n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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(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.
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(n.) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
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(n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
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(n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
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(n.) Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
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(n.) A shape; an image; a phantom.
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(n.) That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
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(n.) A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
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(n.) The seat or bed of a hare.
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(n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
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(n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
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(n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
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(n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
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(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.
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(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.
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(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
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(n.) To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
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(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.
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(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.
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(n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
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(n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
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(v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
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(v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare.
Synonyms
course
,
figure
,
flesh
,
frame
,
shape
,
kind
,
conformation
,
sort
,
chassis
,
physical body
,
soma
,
human body
,
contour
,
grade
,
cast
,
mannikin
,
mannequin
,
physique
,
phase
,
word form
,
configuration
,
class
,
variant
,
pattern
,
bod
,
signifier
,
descriptor
,
manikin
,
variety
,
strain
,
anatomy
,
var.
,
material body
,
manakin
,
build
,
multifariousness
,
potpourri
,
assortment
,
diverseness
,
sorting
,
change
,
motley
,
variety show
,
miscellany
,
smorgasbord
,
miscellanea
,
salmagundi
,
mixture
,
mixed bag
,
diversity
,
formula
,
condition
,
radiation diagram
,
rule
,
blueprint
,
radiation pattern
,
convention
,
practice
,
approach pattern
,
embodiment
,
normal
,
traffic pattern
,
design
,
conformity
,
contour line
,
abidance
,
constellation
,
compliance
,
framing
,
skeletal system
,
pulp
,
figure of speech
,
image
,
trope
,
frame of reference
,
haoma
,
underframe
,
systema skeletale
,
general anatomy
,
inning
,
skeleton
,
body-build
,
habitus
,
fig
,
number
,
digit
,
name
,
skeletal frame
,
public figure
,
hurl
,
dramatis personae
,
cast of characters
,
stamp
,
roll
,
plaster cast
,
mould
,
mold
,
casting
,
plaster bandage
,
air
,
breed
,
song
,
striving
,
straining
,
chance variable
,
variation
,
discrepancy
,
melodic phrase
,
mental strain
,
tenor
,
melodic line
,
variance
,
version
,
stochastic variable
,
stock
,
nervous strain
,
variate
,
tune
,
melody
,
edition
,
pains
,
line
,
stress
,
random variable
,
nisus
,
stage
,
phase angle
,
category
,
ground level
,
tier
,
stratum
,
mark
,
track
,
social class
,
grad
,
row
,
course of action
,
score
,
division
,
level
,
socio-economic class
,
course of study
,
family
,
trend
,
path
,
gradation
,
degree
,
year
,
course of instruction
,
fashion model
,
homunculus
,
model
,
engineer
,
devise
,
imprint
,
spring
,
take form
,
mastermind
,
work
,
direct
,
prepare
,
machinate
,
take shape
,
orchestrate
,
organize
,
forge
,
get up
,
coordinate
,
unionise
,
unionize
,
make
,
organise
,
constitute
,
wee-wee
,
take
,
hit
,
bring in
,
institute
,
draw
,
cook
,
have
,
piddle
,
hold
,
piss
,
do
,
reach
,
earn
,
stimulate
,
get to
,
shit
,
defecate
,
lay down
,
pass water
,
comprise
,
progress to
,
create
,
crap
,
take a shit
,
pretend
,
make water
,
gain
,
ready
,
found
,
establish
,
be
,
realize
,
make up
,
give
,
attain
,
pull in
,
induce
,
pee
,
wee
,
plant
,
ca-ca
,
get
,
micturate
,
take in
,
make believe
,
throw
,
arrive at
,
pee-pee
,
relieve oneself
,
spend a penny
,
represent
,
puddle
,
take a crap
,
clear
,
appoint
,
produce
,
nominate
,
take a leak
,
cause
,
urinate
,
fix
,
realise
,
stool
,
seduce
,
construct
,
rebound
,
recoil
,
bound
,
leap
,
ricochet
,
bounce
,
take a hop
,
resile
,
reverberate
,
jump
,
regulate
,
determine
,
influence
,
knead
,
turn
,
operate
,
act
,
bring
,
excogitate
,
work out
,
run
,
spurt
,
function
,
put to work
,
lick
,
solve
,
figure out
,
fake
,
sour
,
invent
,
play
,
exploit
,
make for
,
spirt
,
go
,
fashion
,
do work
,
hammer
,
mildew
,
puzzle out
,
act upon
,
counterfeit
,
process
,
crop
,
ferment
,
work on
,
formulate
,
wreak
,
cultivate
,
exercise
,
contrive
,
impress
,
body
,
ashes
,
clay
,
dust
,
system
,
carcass
,
corpse
,
remains
,
trunk
Antonyms
intellect
,
intelligence
,
mind
,
soul
,
spirit
Homophones
forme
Rhymes
barnstorm
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brainstorm
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chloroform
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coliform
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conform
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cuneiform
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deform
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disinform
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dorm
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firestorm
,
forme
,
hailstorm
,
horme
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inform
,
lukewarm
,
misinform
,
norm
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orme
,
outperform
,
perform
,
platform
,
rainstorm
,
reform
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sandstorm
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schwarm
,
snowstorm
,
storm
,
swarm
,
thunderstorm
,
torme
,
transform
,
underperform
,
uniform
,
warm
,
windstorm