Noun

(en noun)

To do with shape.

# The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

#* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

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.

#*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric, volume=188, issue=22, page=30

, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Urban canopies let nature bloom , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}

# A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

# Characteristics not involving atomic components. (rfex)

# (label) A long bench with no back.

#* 1981 , (w), (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page) , New York 2007, p. 10:

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.

#* 2010 , (Stephen Fry), :

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.

# (label) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

# (label) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

(label) To do with structure or procedure.

# An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

# Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.

# Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

# Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.

# (label) A class or rank in society.

#* (w) (1643-1715)

ladies of a high form

# (label) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).

#* 2011 , Jane Martinson, The Guardian , 4 May:

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.

# (label) Level.

## 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.

## (label) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).

A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

(label) 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.

*, II.29:

Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme .

*, 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), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.275:

Hares left their snug ‘forms ’ in the cold grass.

A window or dialogue box.

* 1998 , Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.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.

(label) An infraspecific rank.

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

(label) A quantic.

Noun

A being involved in the action of a story.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 26, author=Tasha Robinson, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits , passage=But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. }}

A distinguishing feature; characteristic.

A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.

* Motley

a man of thoroughly subservient character

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

He has a great deal of character .

A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

Julius Caesar is a great historical character .

A written or printed symbol, or letter.

* Holder

It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.

an inscription in the Runic character

* Shakespeare

You know the character to be your brother's?

(computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

(informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

(mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

in the miserable character of a slave

in his character as a magistrate

(dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

a man's character for truth and veracity

Her actions give her a bad character .

* Addison

This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

(dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.