Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

    When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

    assume a form or shape

  2. (transitive)To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

    Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

    formen, bilden, gestalten

    придава́ть фо́рмуpridavátʹ fórmu, формирова́тьformirovátʹ, образо́выватьobrazóvyvatʹ

    give shape or form to

  3. (intransitive)To take shape.

    When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

    sich bilden, entstehen, Form annehmen

    формирова́тьсяformirovátʹsja, сформирова́тьсяsformirovátʹsja

  4. To put together or bring into being; assemble.

    The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.

    Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

  5. (transitive)To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

    By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

    bilden

    create (as an entity)

  6. (transitive)To constitute, to compose, to make up.

    Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

    ausmachen, bilden, darstellen

    формирова́тьformirovátʹ, сформирова́тьsformirovátʹ

    to compose or represent

  7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

    Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

    1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 'Tis education forms the common mind.

  8. To provide (a hare) with a form.

  9. (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.

Examples

1324 sentences
  1. Please fill out this form first.

    Будь ласка, спочатку заповніть цю форму.

    ruПожалуйста, заполните сначала этот бланк.

    deBitte füllen Sie zuerst dieses Formular aus.

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  2. 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?

    deWürden Sie bitte dieses Formular ausfüllen?

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  3. Attack is the best form of defense.

    Найкращий захист - напад.

    ruНаступление - лучшая защита.

    deAngriff ist die beste Verteidigung.

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  4. Who helped Tom fill out this form?

    Хто допоміг Тому заповнити цю форму?

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  5. Tom helped Mary fill out the form.

    Том допоміг Мері заповнити форму.

    ruТом помог Мэри заполнить форму.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to give shape:
(intransitive) to take shape:
to constitute, to compose:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to give shape:
(intransitive) to take shape:
to constitute, to compose:

Origin

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreemen

From 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

forms, forming, formed, formed
Base formform · to form
3rd person singularforms
Present participleforming
Past simpleformed
Past participleformed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyform
he, she, itforms

Past simpleLesson

all personsformed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave formed
he, she, ithas formed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill form

Synonyms

20 synonyms
constitute:composeB1
take shape:take form
give shape:beshape
Close in meaning

Antonyms

10 antonyms

Word family

17 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • application form
  • out this form
  • the application form
  • this application form
  • out the form
  • application form in
  • in this form

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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