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(heading, physical) To do with shape.
1. Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
2. 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  [ …] .

(social) To do with structure or procedure.

Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
a republican form of government ‎
a matter of mere form ‎
ladies of a high form
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.
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?  [ …] "

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(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.

The den or home of a hare.

(computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.

(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

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

(geometry) A quantic.

VT To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
1. When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. ‎

VT (linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

To provide (a hare) with a form.

(electrical, historical) VT 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.

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- ICCs can form gap junctions with smooth muscle, and juxtracrine chemical synapses have been shown to form between ICCs and immune cells in rat bladder and other organs.
- It’s a small sculpture in the form of a bird with the head of a woman, a type of mythical creature known as a kinnari.
- Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- The 01–41 peptide was synthesized by Atlantic Peptides (Lewisburg, PA) in both the biotinylated and nonbiotinylated forms.
- Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.
- Aggiss and Cowie are smash and grab artists, eclectically borrowing from a range of different dance and performance styles and making them into their own inimitable blended form.

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