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form

(fôrm)

1. The shape and structure of an object.
2. The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal considered separately from the face or head; figure.
1. The essence of something.
2. The mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself; kind: a form of animal life; a form of blackmail.
1. Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom.
2. A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony; a formula.
A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information: insurance forms.
1. Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom.
2. Behavior according to a fixed or accepted standard: Tardiness is considered bad form.
3. Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria: a good jump shooter having an unusual form.
1. Proven ability to perform: a musician at the top of her form.
2. Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training.
3. The past performance of a racehorse.
4. A racing form.
1. Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in literary or musical composition or in organized discourse: presented my ideas in outline form; a treatise in the form of a dialogue.
2. A particular type or example of such arrangement: The essay is a literary form.
3. The design, structure, or pattern of a work of art: symphonic form.
1. A mold for the setting of concrete.
2. A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.
3. A proportioned model that may be adjusted for fitting clothes.
A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools: the sixth form.
1. A linguistic form.
2. The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.
1. Chiefly British. A long seat; a bench.
2. The resting place of a hare.
Botany. A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.

v., formed, form·ing, forms.

v.tr.

1. To give form to; shape: form clay into figures.
2. To develop in the mind; conceive: form an opinion.
1. To shape or mold (dough, for example) into a particular form.
2. To arrange oneself in: Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.
3. To organize or arrange: The environmentalists formed their own party.
4. To fashion, train, or develop by instruction or precept: form a child's mind.
To come to have; develop or acquire: form a habit.
To constitute or compose a usually basic element, part, or characteristic of.
1. To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection: form the pluperfect.
2. To make (a word) by derivation or composition.
To put in order; arrange.

v.intr.

To become formed or shaped.
To come into being by taking form; arise.
To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern.

[Middle English forme, from Latin fōrma.]

formability form'a·bil'i·ty n.
formable form'a·ble adj.

SYNONYMS form, figure, shape, configuration, contour, profile. These nouns refer to the external outline of a thing. Form is the outline and structure of a thing as opposed to its substance: a brooch in the form of a lovers' knot. Figure refers usually to form as established by bounding or enclosing lines: The cube is a solid geometric figure. Shape implies three-dimensional definition that indicates both outline and bulk or mass: “He faced her, a hooded and cloaked shape” (Joseph Conrad). Configuration stresses the pattern formed by the arrangement of parts within an outline: The map shows the configuration of North America, with its mountains, rivers, and plains. Contour refers especially to the outline of a three-dimensional figure: I traced the contour of the bow with my finger. Profile denotes the outline of something viewed against a background and especially the outline of the human face in side view: The police took a photograph of the mugger's profile.

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Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: form

(1) A paper form used for printing.

(2) A formatted screen display designed for a particular application. See forms software.

Investment Dictionary: Form T

A form required by the NASD for reporting an equity trade executed after normal market hours.

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Financial & Investment Dictionary: Form T

National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) form for reporting equity transaction executed after the market's normal hours.

Marketing Dictionary: form

Direct mail: order document, letter, invoice, or renewal notice that constitutes a mailing package component. They are usually computerprinted continuous forms.

Merchandising: physical state of a product such as solid, liquid, or aerosol.

Printing: set of type or film elements enclosed in a metal chase (frame) and ready for printing.

Insurance Dictionary: Form

Attachment to an insurance policy to complete its coverage. For example, the Standard Fire Policy must have certain forms attached for it to provide the coverage desired.

Thesaurus: form

noun

The external outline of a thing: cast, configuration, figure, pattern, shape. See surface/depth.
A document used in applying, as for a job: application. See seek/avoid, words.
An accepted way of doing something: convention. See usual/unusual.
A conventional social gesture or act without intrinsic purpose: ceremony, formality, ritual. See ritual, usual/unusual.
A state of sound readiness: condition, fettle, fitness, kilter, order, shape, trim. See better/worse.
A hollow device for shaping a fluid or plastic substance: cast, matrix, mold. See surface/depth.

verb

To give form to by or as if by pressing and kneading: model, mold, shape. See surface/depth.
To create by combining parts or elements: build, compose, configure, pattern, shape, structure. See make/unmake.
To come gradually to have: acquire, develop. See get/lose.
To be the constituent parts of: compose, constitute, make (up). See be.

Idioms: form

In addition to the idiom beginning with form, also see run to form; true to form.

Antonyms: form

Definition: organization, arrangement
Antonyms: disarrangement, disorganization

n

Definition: shape
Antonyms: shapelessness

v

Definition: be part of
Antonyms: get out of

v

Definition: bring into existence; make, produce
Antonyms: break, destroy, hurt, ruin

v

Definition: come into being; arise
Antonyms: destroy, dissolve, kill, ruin

v

Definition: educate, discipline
Antonyms: neglect

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: form

In the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle the active, determining principle of a thing. The term was traditionally used to translate Plato's eidos, by which he meant the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is, in contrast to the particulars that are finite and subject to change. Each form is the pattern of a particular category of thing in the world; thus, there are forms of human, stone, shape, colour, beauty, and justice. Whereas the physical world, perceived with the senses, is in constant flux and knowledge derived from it restricted and variable, the realm of forms, apprehensible only by the mind, is eternal and changeless. Particular things derive what reality they have by "participating" in, or imperfectly copying, the forms. Aristotle rejected the abstract Platonic notion of form and argued that every sensible object consists of both matter and form, neither of which can exist without the other. For Aristotle, the matter of a thing consists of those of its elements which, when the thing has come into being, may be said to have "become" it; the form of a thing is the arrangement or organization through which such elements have become the thing in question. Thus a certain lump of bronze is the matter that, given a certain form, becomes a statue or, given another, becomes a sword. The Aristotelian concept of form was adapted and developed by St. Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic philosophers. The Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant used the notion of form to describe the mentally imposed conditions of sensible experience, namely space and time.

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Architecture: form

Temporary boarding, sheeting, or pans of plywood, molded fiberglass, etc.; used to give desired shape to poured concrete, or the like.

form for a concrete column

Law Encyclopedia: Form

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

A prototype of an instrument to be employed in a legal transaction or a judicial pro- ceeding that includes the primary essential matters, the appropriate technical phrases or terms, and any additional material required to render it officially accurate, arranged in suitable and systematic order, and conducive to adaptation to the circumstances of the particular case.

The expression form of the statute signifies the language or structure of a statute, and, therefore, the restriction or command that it might include, as used in the phrase in criminal pleading "against the form of statute in that case made and provided."

A matter of form, as distinguished from a matter of substance—with respect to pleadings, affidavits, indictments, and other legal instruments—entails the method, style, or form of relating the applicable facts; the selection or arrangement of terms; and other such matters without influencing the essential sufficiency or validity of the instrument, or without reaching the merits.

Abbreviations: FORM

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Literary Glossary: Form

The pattern or construction of a work which identifies its genre and distinguishes it from other genres. Examples of forms include the different genres, such as the lyric form or the short story form, and various patterns for poetry, such as the verse form or the stanza form.

Poetry Glossary: Form

The arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc. In other words, the "way-it-is-said."

Gardener's Dictionary: form

A subdivision of a variety, differing in only one characteristic, such as the color of the flower.

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IN BRIEF: An established manner of doing or saying something.

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Wikipedia: Form

It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. (Discuss)

This article is about the meanings of the word form connected with shape or structure. For other meanings, see Form (disambiguation).

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).

The word form, is a phenomenon: Thus a speech may contain excellent arguments (the matter may be good), whereas the style, grammar, arrangement (the form) may be bad. "Form is supposed to cover the shape and structure of the work; content its substance, meaning, ideas, or expressive effects." (Middleton 1999, p.141) The term, with its adjective formal and the derived nouns formality and formalism, is hence sometimes contemptuously used for that which is superficial, unessential, hypocritical: chapter 23 of Matthew's gospel is a classical instance of the distinction between the formalism of the Pharisaic code and genuine religion. With this may be compared the popular phrases good form and bad form applied to behaviour in society: so format (from the French) is technically used of the shape and size, e.g. of a book (octavo, quarto, etc.) or of a cigarette.

The word form is also applied to certain definite objects: in printing a body of type secured in a chase for printing at one impression (form or forme); a bench without a back, such as is used in schools (perhaps to be compared with the French s'asseoir en forme, to sit in a row); a mould or shape on or in which an object is manufactured; the lair or nest of a hare. From its use in the sense of regulated order comes the application of the term to a class in a school (sixth form, fifth form, etc.); this sense has been explained without sufficient ground as due to the idea of all children in the same class sitting on a single form (bench).

Form

Form can also be used to denote a level of preparedness, recent proficiency or success e.g. 'The racehorse's form has been poor of late' to describe a horse's recent racing performance rather than its historic physical form or 'Hossam Ghaly hopes to continue his recent run of good form in the Tottenham Hotspur 1st XI'. This particular meaning of the word 'form' highlights a peculiar unity - harmonious antecedent physical and mental form precipitates fine form in terms of resultant performance as a consequence. Determinism ensures the instantiation of one mode of form necessitates its expression in another mode. Whether this unity is a necessary property of a physically determined world or is simply a synthetic unity of language is open to debate.

Form

Main article: form (document)

Form also refers to a document that is commonly used to request information and data. Forms are available in printed or electronic format, the latter being the most versatile as it enables the user to type the requested information using a computer keyboard and allows them to easily distribute the content contained within using the Internet and email.

Form in philosophy

The Basic Principle of Excellent Design, often described as Form Follows Function is often thought to have arisen from 20th century Architectural and Artistic Movements in the United States of America (USA).

The word has had various usages in philosophy. It has been used to translate the Platonic idea (eidos), the permanent reality which makes a thing what it is, in contrast with the thing's particulars, which are finite and subject to change. Whether Plato understood these forms as actually existent apart from all the particular examples, or as being of the nature of immutable physical laws, is a matter of controversy. For practical purposes, Aristotle was the first to distinguish between matter (hyle) and form (morphe). To Aristotle matter is the undifferentiated primal element: it is rather that from which things develop than a thing in itself. The development of particular things from this germinal matter consists in differentiation, the acquiring of particular forms of which the knowable universe consists (cf. causation for the Aristotelian formal cause). The perfection of the form of a thing is its entelechy in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, ii. 2). Thus the entelechy of the body is the soul. The origin of the differentiation process is to be sought in a prime mover, i.e. pure form entirely separate from all matter, eternal, unchangeable, operating not by its own activity but by the impulse which its own absolute existence excites in matter.

The Aristotelian conception of form was nominally, though perhaps in most cases unintelligently, adopted by the Scholastics, to whom, however, its origin in the observation of the physical universe was an entirely foreign idea. The most remarkable adaptation is probably that of Aquinas, who distinguished the spiritual world with its subsistent forms (formae separatae) from the material with its inherent forms which exist only in combination with matter. Bacon, returning to the physical standpoint, maintained that all true research must be devoted to the discovery of the real nature or essence of things. His induction searches for the true form of light, heat and so forth, analysing the external form given in perception into simpler forms and their differences. Thus he would collect all possible instances of hot things, and discover that which is present in all, excluding all those qualities which belong accidentally to one or more of the examples investigated: the form of heat is the residuum common to all. Kant transferred the term from the objective to the subjective sphere. All perception is necessarily conditioned by pure forms of sensibility, i.e. space and time: whatever is perceived is perceived as having spatial and temporal relations (see Duration; Kant). These forms are not obtained by abstraction from sensible data, nor are they strictly speaking innate: they are obtained by the very action of the mind from the co-ordination of its sensation. .

References

Richard Middleton. "Form", in Horner, Bruce and Swiss, Thomas, eds. (1999) Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-631-21263-9.
Władysław Tatarkiewicz, A History of Six Ideas: an Essay in Aesthetics, translated from the Polish by Christopher Kasparek, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1980. (Traces the history of key aesthetics concepts, including art, beauty, form, creativity, mimesis, and the aesthetic experience.)

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Misspellings: form

Common misspelling(s) of form

fomr

Translations: Translations for: Form

Dansk (Danish)
n. - form, skema, formalitet
v. tr. - danne, udgøre, oprette, formere
v. intr. - formes, opstå, dannes, danne sig

idioms:

form feed blanketfremføring
form letter formularbrev
form of address tiltaleform
in good form i fin form
off form ude af form
on form i form
take form tage form

Nederlands (Dutch)
vorm, gedaante, formulier, klas, printklare letters, techniek, hazennest, bankje, groep van organismen, rangschikking, vermogen, vormen, ontstaan, geschoold zijn, maken, ontwikkelen/ verkrijgen, ordenen, verbuigen (woord)

Français (French)
n. - forme, sorte (de), formulaire, condition physique, (Littérat, Art) forme, structure, genre, formule, formulation, (GB, École) classe, (Ling) forme, gîte, banc, (Philos) forme, (GB) taule, forme (logique)
v. tr. - former, développer, établir, constituer, nouer une amitié, se faire (une impression, une image), concevoir de l'admiration, former (une personnalité), former/constituer (un jury)
v. intr. - prendre forme, se former, se produire, (Mil) se former en rangs

idioms:

form feed avancement (de l'imprimé)
form letter lettre type
form of address titre de politesse, formule de politesse
form up se mettre en rangs
good form pleine forme, (être) de bon ton, politesse
in form en forme
off form pas en forme
on form en forme
out of form pas en forme
take form prendre forme

Deutsch (German)
n. - Form, Gestalt, Verfassung, Formular, Klasse
v. - bilden, formen, gestalten, fassen, schließen, entwickeln, gründen

idioms:

form feed Formularvorschub, Belegzufuhr
form letter vorgedruckter Brief
form of address Form der Anrede
form up sich formieren
good form in guter Verfassung
in form in Form
off form nicht in Form
on form in Form
out of form außer Form, nicht in Form
take form Gestalt annehmen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μορφή, σχήμα, περίγραμμα (κν. φιγούρα, σιλουέτα), τρόπος, συμπεριφορά, τύπος, μήτρα (κν. καλούπι, φόρμα), σχολική τάξη, φόρμα, φυσική, αγωνιστική ή ψυχική κατάσταση, μακρύ κάθισμα, πάγκος ή θρανίο, (τυπογρ.) έντυπο (για συμπλήρωση κ.λπ.), τύπος
v. - διαμορφώνω/-ομαι, διαπλάθω/-ομαι, σχηματίζω/-ομαι, συγκροτώ-ούμαι, συνιστώ/-ώμαι, καταστρώνω, καταρτίζω, φτιάχνω, αποτελώ-ούμαι, συναπαρτίζω/-ομαι

idioms:

form feed (Η/Υ) αλλαγή/προχώρημα σελίδας
form letter τυποποιημένη/στερεότυπη επιστολή
form of address τύπος προσφώνησης
in good form σε φόρμα
off form σε κακή φόρμα
on form σε φόρμα, στη γνωστή του φόρμα
take form σχηματίζομαι

Italiano (Italian)
formare, costituire, plasmare, forma, modo, stampo, panca, modulo

idioms:

form letter carta intestata
in good form in buona e dovuta forma
off form in cattiva forma
on form in forma
take form prendere forma

Português (Portuguese)
n. - forma (f)
v. - formar

idioms:

form letter carta-circular (f)
form of address carta-padrão (f)
in good form em boa forma
off form fora de forma
on form em forma
take form tomar forma

Русский (Russian)
придавать форму, сформировать, создавать, образовывать, выработать, сложить, составлять основу, собираться, строится, бланк, фигура, форма, внешний вид, класс

idioms:

form letter стандартное письмо
form of address форма обращения
in good form в отличной форме, в отличном состоянии
off form не в форме
on form в прекрасном состоянии
take form принимать форму

Español (Spanish)
n. - forma, condición, estado, modo, molde, gradas, modelo, formulario, hoja
v. tr. - formar, configurar, componer, constituir, integrar, modelar, moldear
v. intr. - formarse

idioms:

form feed impresora
form letter circular, carta preimpresa
form of address formulario
form up formar
good form en buena forma, en buen estado físico
in form en buena forma
off form fuera de forma
on form en forma
out of form desentrenado
take form tomar forma

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - form (i olika betydelser), gestalt, formalitet, formulär, skolbänk, årskurs
v. - bilda, grunda, utveckla, utgöra, formera (mil.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
形状, 形式, 表格, 形成, 塑造, 构成, 构, 成形, 排, 列, 被形成, 开始形成

idioms:

form feed 换页
form letter 信件, 套用信函
form of address 敬称
in good form 状况良好
off form 状态不佳
on form 根据形式, 状态良好
take form 具有看得见的形状, 思想等的形成, 产生

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 形狀, 形式, 表格
v. tr. - 形成, 塑造, 構成, 構
v. intr. - 成形, 排, 列, 被形成, 開始形成

idioms:

form feed 換頁
form letter 信件, 套用信函
form of address 敬稱
in good form 狀況良好
off form 狀態不佳
on form 根據形式, 狀態良好
take form 具有看得見的形狀, 思想等的形成, 產生

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 형, 외형, 예법
v. tr. - 형성하다, (습관을) 붙이다, 구성하다
v. intr. - 천천히 나아가다, (생각, 희망 등이) 생기다

idioms:

in good form 컨디션이 좋은, 재치 넘치는, 활발한
take form 형태를 이루다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 形, 姿, 形態, 種類, 書式, 書き込み用紙, 形式, 表現形式, フォーム, 作法, 学年, 調子, 好調, 用紙
v. - 形作る, 形を成す, 組織する, 作り上げる, 付ける, 構成する, 成す, 整列させる, 思いつく, 生じる

idioms:

combining form 連結形
form letter 同文の手紙
form of address 敬称
off form 不調で
on form 好調で
take form 形をとる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شكل , نموذج (فعل) يشكل , يكون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צורה, דמות, נוהג, טקס, טופס, מצב-רוח, כושר, כיתה, סגנון של יצירה ספרותית או מוסיקלית, ספסל ארוך ללא משענת, מאורת שפן, טבעו היסודי של בעל-חיים או דבר, סוג, התנהגות מקובלת‬
v. tr. - ‮היווה, יצר, הרכיב, עיצב, הדריך, ביטא או היטה מילה‬
v. intr. - ‮התהווה, נערך, נוצר‬

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