Definition of forms Forms
/fɔˈɹmz/ - [formz] -
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- forms (Noun)
Plural of form.
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| form - a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" | ||
| shape, pattern | ||
| structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" | ||
| percept, perceptual experience, perception the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | ||
| fractal (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | ||
| gestalt a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | ||
| grid a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | ||
| kaleidoscope an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors | ||
| mosaic art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass | ||
| form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" | ||
| word form, signifier, descriptor | ||
| word a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
| plural, plural form the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | ||
| singular, singular form the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | ||
| ghost word a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error | ||
| root word, theme, radical, stem, root, base a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" | ||
| etymon, root a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | ||
| citation form, entry word, main entry word the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary | ||
| abbreviation shortening something by omitting parts of it | ||
| form - a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form" | ||
| papers, written document, document anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | ||
| blank space, space, place the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite" | ||
| application form a form to use when making an application | ||
| claim form a form to use when filing a claim | ||
| order form a form to use when placing an order | ||
| questionnaire a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | ||
| requisition form, requisition an official form on which a request in made; "first you have to fill out the requisition" | ||
| tax form a form to use when paying your taxes | ||
| form - the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" | ||
| shape, cast | ||
| visual aspect, appearance the act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America" | ||
| form - (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" | ||
| variant, strain, var. | ||
| taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group animal or plant group having natural relations | ||
| species a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy" | ||
| biological science, biology the science that studies living organisms | ||
| form - a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation" | ||
| mold, mould, cast container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | ||
| form - an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" | ||
| literary genre, writing style, genre a style of expressing yourself in writing | ||
| form - a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" | ||
| form - an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night" | ||
| form - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" | ||
| kind, sort, variety | ||
| category a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | ||
| description sort or variety; "every description of book was there" | ||
| type a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up" | ||
| antitype an opposite or contrasting type | ||
| art form (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) | ||
| style a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style" | ||
| flavor, flavour (physics) the six kinds of quarks | ||
| color, colour the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | ||
| species a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy" | ||
| genus a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism" | ||
| make, brand a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?" | ||
| genre a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique | ||
| ilk, like a kind of person; "We'll not see his like again"; "I can't tolerate people of his ilk" | ||
| manner a way of acting or behaving | ||
| model the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | ||
| stripe a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" | ||
| form - any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" | ||
| shape, configuration, contour, conformation | ||
| spatial property, spatiality any property relating to or occupying space | ||
| keenness, sharpness thinness of edge or fineness of point | ||
| bluntness, dullness the quality of being direct and outspoken; "the bluntness of a Yorkshireman" | ||
| topography the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features | ||
| lobularity the property of having lobules | ||
| concaveness, concavity the property possessed by a concave shape | ||
| convexness, convexity the property possessed by a convex shape | ||
| angularity the property possessed by a shape that has angles | ||
| narrowing the act of making something narrower | ||
| curvature, curve the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | ||
| roundness the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular | ||
| straightness freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | ||
| crookedness the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | ||
| form - the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" | ||
| shape | ||
| attribute an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | ||
| solid a three-dimensional shape | ||
| plane, sheet a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" | ||
| natural shape a shape created by natural forces; not man-made | ||
| flair, flare a natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" | ||
| figure a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures" | ||
| line acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line" | ||
| angular shape, angularity a shape having one or more sharp angles | ||
| round shape a shape that is curved and without sharp angles | ||
| distorted shape, distortion a shape resulting from distortion | ||
| amorphous shape an ill-defined or arbitrary shape | ||
| connexion, connection, link shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" | ||
| circle any circular or rotating mechanism; "the machine punched out metal circles" | ||
| square a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square" | ||
| triangle a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | ||
| tower, pillar, column a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building | ||
| form - alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" | ||
| human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, flesh | ||
| organic structure, physical structure, body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| human, human being, homo, man any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | ||
| person a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" | ||
| juvenile body the body of a young person | ||
| adult body the body of an adult human being | ||
| male body the body of a male human being | ||
| form - (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system" | ||
| phase | ||
| state of matter, state (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice" | ||
| physical chemistry the branch of chemistry dealing with the physical properties of chemical substances | ||
| dispersed particles, dispersed phase (of colloids) a substance in the colloidal state | ||
| form - a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" | ||
| class, grade, course | ||
| assemblage, gathering a group of persons together in one place | ||
| master class a class (especially in music) given to talented students by an expert | ||
| form - a life-size dummy used to display clothes | ||
| mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin | ||
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| form - create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" | ||
| organize, organise | ||
| create, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" | ||
| regroup, reorganise, reorganize reorganize into new groups | ||
| choose up form sides, as for a game | ||
| draw up come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us" | ||
| regiment assign to a regiment; "regiment soldiers" | ||
| syndicate sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations | ||
| form - assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads" | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| constellate form a constellation or cluster | ||
| culminate rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" | ||
| granulate, grain form granulating tissue; "wounds and ulcers can granulate" | ||
| conglobate, conglobe assume a globular shape | ||
| bunch, bunch up, cluster, bundle, clump gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" | ||
| brecciate break into breccia; "brecciate rock" | ||
| reticulate divide so as to form a network | ||
| flake cover with flakes or as if with flakes | ||
| head remove the head of; "head the fish" | ||
| bead string together like beads | ||
| form - to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" | ||
| constitute, make | ||
| comprise, constitute, make up, be, represent form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" | ||
| chelate form a chelate, in chemistry | ||
| add make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" | ||
| form - develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" | ||
| take form, take shape, spring | ||
| become enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" | ||
| regenerate restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient" | ||
| form - give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character" | ||
| shape | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| individuate give individual shape or form to; "Language that individuates his memories" | ||
| tie form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie" | ||
| terrace make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land" | ||
| fork shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers" | ||
| tabulate shape or cut with a flat surface | ||
| dimension shape or form to required dimensions | ||
| roll execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped" | ||
| draw cause to localize at one point; "Draw blood and pus" | ||
| strike cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc" | ||
| crystallise, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts" | ||
| twist twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" | ||
| sliver form into slivers; "sliver wood" | ||
| ridge form into a ridge | ||
| plume form a plume; "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke" | ||
| round off, round out, round express as a round number; "round off the amount" | ||
| scollop, scallop shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress" | ||
| square up, square even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing | ||
| dish make concave; shape like a dish | ||
| fit insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment" | ||
| flatten lower the pitch of (musical notes) | ||
| distort, deform, strain alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy" | ||
| blow exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down" | ||
| block shape into a block or blocks; "block the graphs so one can see the results clearly" | ||
| block shape into a block or blocks; "block the graphs so one can see the results clearly" | ||
| cup treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | ||
| encircle, circle form a circle around; "encircle the errors" | ||
| turn pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
| form - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" | ||
| shape, work, mold, mould, forge | ||
| create from raw material, create from raw stuff make from scratch | ||
| carve cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" | ||
| swage, upset form metals with a swage | ||
| chip break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" | ||
| layer make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands" | ||
| cut out cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out" | ||
| machine make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars" | ||
| grind reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" | ||
| stamp destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" | ||
| puddle make a puddle by splashing water | ||
| beat come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | ||
| preform form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | ||
| preform form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | ||
| mound form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth" | ||
| hill form into a hill | ||
| roughcast apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall" | ||
| reshape, remold shape anew or differently; "The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country" | ||
| sinter cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting | ||
| mould, mold, cast become moldy; spoil due to humidity; "The furniture molded in the old house" | ||
| throw throw (a die) out onto a flat surface; "Throw a six" | ||
| hand-build, handbuild, coil make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels" | ||
| work on, process, work subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" | ||
| sculpt, sculpture shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" | ||
| mould, model, mold form in clay, wax, etc; "model a head with clay" | ||
| form - establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children" | ||
| imprint | ||
| act upon, influence, work have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" | ||
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Wiktionary
- form (Noun)
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. - form (Noun)
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. - form (Noun)
An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. - form (Noun)
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. - form (Noun)
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages. - form (Noun)
Characteristics not involving atomic components. - form (Noun)
A criminal record ; loosely, past history in a given area. - form (Noun)
The den or home of a hare. - form (Noun)
A long bench with no back. - form (Noun)
A window or dialogue box . - form (Noun)
An infraspecific rank. - form (Verb)
To give shape or visible structure to a thing or person. - form (Verb)
To take shape. - form (Verb)
To create a word by inflection or derivation. - form (Verb)
To constitute, to compose, to make up .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. -
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A document wıth blank spaces to be filled in by the user. -
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To gıve shape or visible structure to a thing or person. -
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In botanics, a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. -
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A method of doing something.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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form, n. shape of a body: the boundary-line of an object: a model: a mould: mode of being: mode of arrangement: order: regularity: system, as of government: beauty or elegance: established practice: ceremony: fitness or efficiency for any undertaking: a blank schedule to be filled in with details: a specimen document to be copied or imitated: (phil.) 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: (print.) the type from which an impression is to be taken arranged and secured in a chase—often Forme:—(in the fol. senses pron. fōrm), a long seat, a bench: the pupils on a form, a class: the bed of a hare, which takes its shape from the animal's body.—v.t. to give form or shape to: to make: to contrive: to settle, as an opinion: to combine: to go to make up: to establish: (gram.) to make by derivation.—v.i. to assume a form.—adj. Form′al, according to form or established mode: ceremonious, punctilious, methodical: having the form only: (Shak.) embodied in a form: having the power of making a thing what it is: essential: proper.—v.t. and v.i. Form′alise.—ns. Form′alism, excessive observance of form or conventional usage, esp. in religion: stiffness of manner; Form′alist, one having exaggerated regard to rules or established usages; Formal′ity, the precise observance of forms or ceremonies: established order: sacrifice of substance to form.—adv. Form′ally.—n. Formā′tion, a making or producing: structure: (geol.) a group of strata of one period.—adj. Form′ative, giving form, determining, moulding: (gram.) inflectional, serving to form, not radical.—n. a derivative.—p.adj. Formed, trained, mature.—n. Form′er.—adj. Form′less, shapeless.—Formal logic (see Logic).—Good, or Bad, form, according to good social usage, or the opposite; Take form, to assume a definite appearance. [O. Fr. forme—L. forma, shape.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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To form, in a general acceptation of the term, is to assume or produce any shape or figure, extent or depth of line or column, by means of prescribed rules in military movements or dispositions. To form on is to advance forward, so as to connect yourself with any given object of formation, and to lengthen the line.
Wikipedia 
- "Form" (Lat. "forma" Eng. "mould"), refers to the external three-dimensional outline, appearance or configuration of some thing - in contrast to the matter or content or substance of which it is composed (compare with shape).
