What is the meaning of Form?

To do with shape.

  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. Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
  4. The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
  5. Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  6. A long bench with no back.
  7. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
  8. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

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

Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.

Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

A long bench with no back.

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

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

To do with structure or procedure.

  1. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
  2. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
  3. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

    An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

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

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

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

    A class or rank in society.

    Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.

    Level of performance.

    A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).

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

    A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

    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.

    A window or dialogue box.

    An infraspecific rank.

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

    A quantic.

    A specific way of performing a movement.

    To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

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

    To take shape.

    To put together or bring into being; assemble.

    To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

    To constitute, to compose, to make up.

    To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

    To provide (a hare) with a form.

    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.

    form (document to be filled) (Classifier: c;  c)

    a class or year of students (Classifier: c)

    to form; to take shape

    to form ; to assemble

    form

    shape

    mould

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

    singular imperative of formen

    first-person singular present of formen

    mould

    form, shape

    form, shape

    form, document

    a form, shape (the outer configuration of a thing; figure, outline)

    curves (the shape of a human, especially a woman's body)

    a shape, form (the way in which details, especially outer lines, are prepared, arranged, assembled into a harmonious whole)

    form (way of expressing oneself; way of acting)

    a form, design (the way in which something acts, is organized or manifests itself)

    a state (the physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma)

    a level below a species in the classification of organisms, where there is a less systematic variation between individuals of the same species

    a type, kind, form (a category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together)

    a form (an eternal type of thing or idea, especially in Plato's philosophy)

    the formal cause (the design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter, in Aristotelianism)

    form (summary of the manifold, the material of experience, into unity in consciousness - especially in Kant's philosophy)

    a norm (a rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community)

    1. etiquette (the customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other)

    etiquette (the customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other)

    a form (a grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech)

    a form, mold (a hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance)

    1. a printing form (an object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface)

      a printing form (an object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface)

      an extruder (a machine that extrudes material through shaped dies)

      shape, form (a human or animal's physical condition, especially in terms of endurance and athletic performance)

      imperative of forme

      form

      shape

      a mould (e.g., for cast products)

      a form, a shape

      a form, a mold, a dish, a tray, a tin, a piece of ovenware

      form

      Source: wiktionary.org