form

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See also: Form, and -form

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French forme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”)

Pronunciation

Noun

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

  1. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
    1. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
    2. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
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    4. (dated) A long bench with no back.
      • 1981, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 10:
        I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside […].
      • 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography:
        The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms, as benches used to be called.
    5. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
    6. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
  2. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
    1. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
    2. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
      • John Dryden (1631-1700)
        Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
    3. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
      a republican form of government
    4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
      a matter of mere form
      • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
        Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.
    5. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
    6. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
      • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May:
        It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
    7. (education) Level.
      1. (UK, education) A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
        • 1928, George Bickerstaff, The mayor, and other folk
          One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in? […]"
        • 1976, Ronald King, School and college: studies of post-sixteen education
          From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
      2. (UK) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).
  3. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
    To apply for the position, complete the application form.
  4. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
    participial forms;  verb forms
  5. The den or home of a hare.
    • Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, II.29:
      Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme […].
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p.275:
      Hares left their snug ‘forms’ in the cold grass.
  6. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
    • 1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
      While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.
    • Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
      Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
  7. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  8. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  9. (geometry) A quantic.
  10. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.

Synonyms

  • (shape):
    • figure, used when discussing people, not animals
    • shape, used on animals and on persons
  • (blank document): formular
  • (pre-collegiate level): grade
  • (biology): f.

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

form (third-person singular simple present forms, present participle forming, simple past and past participle formed)

  1. (transitive) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
    When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
  2. (intransitive) To take shape.
    When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
  3. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
    By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
  4. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
    Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
    • Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
      the diplomatic politicians […] who formed by far the majority
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      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
    • 1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in Boys' Life, 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.
  5. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
    Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
    • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
      'Tis education forms the common mind.
    • John Dryden (1631-1700)
      Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
  6. To provide (a hare) with a form.
    • Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
      The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
  7. (electrical, historical, transitive) 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.
  8. (generally of a music group or band) To put together or bring into being; assemble.

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Danish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fōrma (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

Noun

form c (singular definite formen, plural indefinite former)

  1. form
  2. shape

Inflection

Declension of form
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative form formen former formerne
genitive forms formens formers formernes

Noun

form c (singular definite formen, plural indefinite forme)

  1. mould
  2. tin (a metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.)

Inflection

Declension of form
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative form formen forme formene
genitive forms formens formes formenes

German

Verb

form

  1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of formen.
  2. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of formen.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forma.

Noun

form m (definite singular formen, indefinite plural former, definite plural formene)
form f (definite singular forma, indefinite plural former, definite plural formene)

  1. form
  2. shape
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

form

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of forme

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forma.

Noun

form f (definite singular forma, indefinite plural former, definite plural formene)

  1. form
  2. shape

Derived terms

References

Swedish

240 knäckformar

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Swedish forma, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forma.

Pronunciation

Noun

form c

  1. a form, a shape
  2. a form, a mold, a dish, a tray, a tin, a piece of ovenware

Declension

Declension of form
nominative genitive
singular indefinite form forms
definite formen formens
plural indefinite former formers
definite formerna formernas
Declension of form (mold, ovenware)
nominative genitive
singular indefinite form forms
definite formen formens
plural indefinite formar formars
definite formarna formarnas
shape
mold
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