form
To do with shapeTo do with shape.: The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
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Meaning
26 sensesTo do with shape.
(countable, physical, uncountable)The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
Gestalt, Form
фо́рмаfórma, фигу́раfigúra
фо́рмаfórma
a perceptual structure
(countable, physical, uncountable)A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
(countable, physical, uncountable)Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
(countable, physical, uncountable)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.
(countable, physical, uncountable)Characteristics not involving atomic components.
(countable, dated, physical, uncountable)A long bench with no back.
(countable, physical, uncountable)The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
alternative names for the body of a human being
(countable, physical, uncountable)The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
To do with structure or procedure.
(countable, uncountable)An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
(countable, uncountable)Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
(countable, uncountable)Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
a republican form of government
(countable, uncountable)Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
a matter of mere form
Examples
1324 sentencesPlease fill out this form first.
Будь ласка, спочатку заповніть цю форму.
ruПожалуйста, заполните сначала этот бланк.
deBitte füllen Sie zuerst dieses Formular aus.
Would you please fill out this form?
Чи не могли б Ви, будь ласка, заповнити цю форму?
ruВы не могли бы заполнить эту форму, пожалуйста?
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Attack is the best form of defense.
Найкращий захист - напад.
ruНаступление - лучшая защита.
deAngriff ist die beste Verteidigung.
Who helped Tom fill out this form?
Хто допоміг Тому заповнити цю форму?
Tom helped Mary fill out the form.
Том допоміг Мері заповнити форму.
ruТом помог Мэри заполнить форму.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreemenFrom Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).
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Forms
plural: formsSynonyms
21 synonyms- the visual appearance of something or someone:shapecast
- a perceptual structure:shapepattern
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something:word formsignifierdescriptor
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups:variantstrainvar.
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance:shape
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline):shapeconfigurationcontourconformation
Word family
149 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
7 patterns- application form
- out this form
- the application form
- this application form
- out the form
- application form in
- in this form