form

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
 * 2) A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
 * 3) Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5) Characteristics not involving atomic components.
 * 6)  A long bench with no back.
 * 7)  The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
 * 8)  The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
 * 9) An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
 * 10) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
 * 11) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
 * 12) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
 * 13)  A class or rank in society.
 * 14)  Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
 * 15) Level of performance.
 * The team's form has been poor this year.
 * The orchestra was on top form this evening.
 * 1)  A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).
 * 2) A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
 * 3) A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
 * 4)  A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
 * 5) The den or home of a hare.
 * , I.iii.1.2:
 * The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
 * 1)  A window or dialogue box.
 * 2)  An infraspecific rank.
 * 3)  The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
 * 4)  A quantic.
 * 5)  A specific way of performing a movement.
 * 1) Level of performance.
 * The team's form has been poor this year.
 * The orchestra was on top form this evening.
 * 1)  A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).
 * 2) A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
 * 3) A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
 * 4)  A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
 * 5) The den or home of a hare.
 * , I.iii.1.2:
 * The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
 * 1)  A window or dialogue box.
 * 2)  An infraspecific rank.
 * 3)  The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
 * 4)  A quantic.
 * 5)  A specific way of performing a movement.
 * , I.iii.1.2:
 * The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
 * 1)  A window or dialogue box.
 * 2)  An infraspecific rank.
 * 3)  The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
 * 4)  A quantic.
 * 5)  A specific way of performing a movement.
 * 1)  The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
 * 2)  A quantic.
 * 3)  A specific way of performing a movement.
 * 1)  A specific way of performing a movement.

Usage notes

 * In accents without the horse-hoarse merger, a distinction in pronunciation was formerly made between senses 1.6 "long bench", 2.8 "class of pupils", and 6 "den", pronounced (< Middle English ) and all other senses, pronounced  (< Middle English ).

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:shape
 * ; see also Thesaurus:physique
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:composition
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:composition

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Aromanian: bicime
 * Asturian: forma
 * Basque: forma
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, feitura
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μορφή, εἶδος
 * Guaraní: ysaja
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: fòm
 * Icelandic: lögun,
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: forma
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: dhapur,, , warni, wujud
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: សំណុំបែបបទ
 * Korean: 형상(形狀),
 * Kyrgyz: кеп
 * Latin:, figūra
 * Macedonian: облик
 * Manchu: ᡩᡠᡵᡠᠨ
 * Maori:
 * Nanai: дурун
 * Nepali: ,
 * Norman: forme
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: form
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: شكل
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Form
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cumadh, cruth, dèanamh
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, hubog, itsura
 * Tajik:
 * Tocharian B: ersna
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: شەكىل
 * Vietnamese:, , , ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yagnobi: сурат


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِسْتِمَارَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: blank
 * Belarusian: бланк,, анке́та, фармуля́р
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: формуля́р, бла́нка,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: formularo
 * Estonian: formular
 * Finnish:, kaavake
 * French:
 * Galician: formulario
 * Georgian: ბლანკი, ფორმა, ფორმულარი, ანკეტა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: blanketti
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अर्ज़ी,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: бланк, формуляр
 * Khmer: សំណុំបែបបទ
 * Korean: 용지(用紙),
 * Kyrgyz:, формуляр
 * Macedonian: обра́зец, формула́р
 * Malay: borang
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skjema
 * Nynorsk: skjema
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: формулар
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: formulár
 * Slovene: obrazec
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: бланк
 * Thai: แบบฟอร์ม
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: бланк,, , формуля́р
 * Uyghur: جەدۋەل
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: mẫu đơn, ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Kven: haamu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: form
 * Vietnamese: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
 * 2)  To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
 * 3)  To take shape.
 * 4) To put together or bring into being; assemble.
 * 5)  To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
 * 6)  To constitute, to compose, to make up.
 * 7) * 1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608, p.10:
 * Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
 * 1) To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
 * 2) * 1731–1735,, Moral Essays
 * 'Tis education forms the common mind.
 * 1) To provide (a hare) with a form.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  To constitute, to compose, to make up.
 * 2) * 1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608, p.10:
 * Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
 * 1) To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
 * 2) * 1731–1735,, Moral Essays
 * 'Tis education forms the common mind.
 * 1) To provide (a hare) with a form.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1) * 1731–1735,, Moral Essays
 * 'Tis education forms the common mind.
 * 1) To provide (a hare) with a form.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:form
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:come into being
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:compose

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: شَكَّلَ
 * Asturian: formar
 * Bulgarian: оформям
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: formi
 * Extremaduran: hormal
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πλάσσω, μορφόω
 * Haitian Creole: fòme
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: mynda
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:, fingō, figūrō
 * Latvian: izveidot
 * Livonian: lūodõ, vīțõ
 * Macedonian: о́бликува
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: придава́ть фо́рму,, , ,
 * Slovak: vytvarovať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: làm thành,, nặn thành, xếp thành, , , , ,


 * Afrikaans: vorm aanneem
 * Bulgarian: оформям се
 * Esperanto: formiĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: sich bilden,, Form annehmen, sich formieren, , , sich formen, sich entwickeln, sich gründen
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: myndast
 * Ingrian: tokkua
 * Italian:
 * Persian: شکل گرفتن
 * Russian: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: mynda
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a class or year of students
 * 1)  a class or year of students

Usage notes
When specifying the year, contrary to UK usage, a cardinal number follows instead, such as form 6.

Verb

 * 1)  to ; to take shape
 * 2)  to  ; to assemble

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) shape
 * 1) shape

Noun

 * 1) mould
 * 2) tin

Noun

 * 1) mould
 * , shape

Noun

 * , shape
 * , document

Etymology 1
From, from , perhaps from , from , possibly of origin.

Noun

 * a, shape the outer configuration of a thing; figure, outline
 * 1)  curves
 * 2) a shape,
 * 3) a, design
 * 4)  a state
 * 5)  a level below a species in the classification of organisms, where there is a less systematic variation between individuals of the same species
 * 6) a type, kind,
 * 7)  a
 * 8)  the formal cause
 * 9) a norm
 * 10)  etiquette
 * 11)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  curves
 * 2) a shape,
 * 3) a, design
 * 4)  a state
 * 5)  a level below a species in the classification of organisms, where there is a less systematic variation between individuals of the same species
 * 6) a type, kind,
 * 7)  a
 * 8)  the formal cause
 * 9) a norm
 * 10)  etiquette
 * 11)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1) a, design
 * 2)  a state
 * 3)  a level below a species in the classification of organisms, where there is a less systematic variation between individuals of the same species
 * 4) a type, kind,
 * 5)  a
 * 6)  the formal cause
 * 7) a norm
 * 8)  etiquette
 * 9)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  a state
 * 2)  a level below a species in the classification of organisms, where there is a less systematic variation between individuals of the same species
 * 3) a type, kind,
 * 4)  a
 * 5)  the formal cause
 * 6) a norm
 * 7)  etiquette
 * 8)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1) a type, kind,
 * 2)  a
 * 3)  the formal cause
 * 4) a norm
 * 5)  etiquette
 * 6)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1) a norm
 * 2)  etiquette
 * 3)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  etiquette
 * 2)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  a
 * a, mold
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  a printing form
 * 2)  an extruder
 * 1)  an extruder

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , perhaps from , from , possibly of origin.

Noun

 * 1)  shape,  a human or animal's physical condition, especially in terms of endurance and athletic performance

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) shape
 * 2) a mould
 * 1) a mould

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * a, a shape
 * 1) a form, a mold, a dish, a tray, a tin, a piece of ovenware

Related terms

 * shape


 * mold

Etymology
From.