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.

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, 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

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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

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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

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Trouble at the lab , passage=The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.}}

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

*, II.6:

The remembrance whereof (which yet I beare deepely imprinted in my minde) representing me her visage and Idea so lively and so naturally, doth in some sort reconcile me unto her.

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

*

, 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.}}

* 1952 , (Alfred Whitney Griswold)

Ideas won't go to jail.

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an (l).

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

A vague or fanciful (l); a feeling or hunch; an impression.

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.