Definition of Form

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Definition of Form

Form

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

A shape; an image; a phantom.

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

The seat or bed of a hare.

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

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.

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.

The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

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.

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.

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

To run to a form, as a hare.

To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition 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 now the plates or grids are 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.

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Form Quotations

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
Wayne Dyer

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Form Translations

form in Afrikaans is gedaante, vorm
form in Danish is form, formular
form in Dutch is vormen, formeren, aangaan
form in Finnish is muoto
form in French is forme, formons, former, formez, forment, modelage
form in German is formen, bilden, Formular, Form, gestalten
form in Italian is formare, modulo, plasmare, formare, forma
form in Latin is formo
form in Norwegian is skikkelse, forme, form, skjema, danne, skoleklasse
form in Spanish is forma, amoldar, horma, formar, formulario

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