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Etymology

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), from Old French forme, from Latin forma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”)

Pronunciation

Noun

form (plural forms)

  1. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
  2. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
  3. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
  4. A blank document or to be filled in by the user.
    To apply for the position, complete the application form.
  5. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages.
  6. Characteristics not involving atomic components.
  7. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
    • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:
      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.
  8. (UK, education) A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
    • 1928, George Bickerstaff, The mayor, and other folk
      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 ?...
    • 1976, Ronald King, School and college: studies of post-sixteen education
      From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
  9. The den or home of a hare.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.2:
      The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 275:
      Hares left their snug ‘forms’ in the cold grass.
  10. (dated) A long bench with no back.
    • 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
      The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms, as benches used to be called.
  11. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
    • 1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (page 426)
      While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form...
    • Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
      Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.

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Verb

form (third-person singular simple present forms, present participle forming, simple past and past participle formed)

  1. (transitive) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
  2. (intransitive) To take shape.
  3. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
    By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
  4. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
    • 1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in Boys’ Life, Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608, page 10:
      Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.

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Translations

to give shape
  • Italian: formare (it)
  • Japanese: 形作る (ja) (katachizukeru)
  • Latin: formo (la), figuro (la)
  • Portuguese: formar (pt)
  • Russian: (imperfective) придавать форму (ru) (pridavát' fórmu), (imperfective) формовать (ru) (formovát'), (imperfective) формировать (ru) (formirovát')
  • Spanish: formar (es)

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin fōrma (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

Noun

form c. (singular definite formen, plural indefinite former)

  1. form
  2. shape

Inflection

Inflection of form
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative form formen former formerne
genitive forms formens formers formernes

Noun

form c. (singular definite formen, plural indefinite forme)

  1. mould
  2. tin (a metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.)

Inflection

Inflection of form
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative form formen forme formene
genitive forms formens formes formenes

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German

Verb

form

  1. Imperative singular of formen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of formen.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

form c.

  1. shape

Declension

Declension of form
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative form formen former formerna
genitive forms formens formers formernas

 

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