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Morph vs Deform - What's the difference?

morph | deform |

As verbs the difference between morph and deform

is that morph is (colloquial|ambitransitive) to change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation while deform is to change the form of, negatively.

As a noun morph

is (linguistics) a physical form representing some morpheme in language it is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.

As an adjective deform is

(obsolete) deformed, misshapen.

morph

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  • (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  • (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  • A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortening of metamorphose: to change in shape or form.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  • To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

    Related terms

    * morphic * morpho- * morphological

    deform

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change the form of, negatively.
  • To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
    • a face deformed by bitterness
  • To mar the character of.
    • a marriage deformed by jealousy
  • To alter the shape of by stress.
  • To become misshapen or changed in shape.

    • Synonyms

    * distort, contort, warp

    Derived terms

    * deformable * deformation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • who so kild that monster most deforme , / And him in hardy battaile ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame [...].

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs