form (n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Form (n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
Form (n.) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
Form (n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
Form (n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Form (n.) Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
Form (n.) A shape; an image; a phantom.
Form (n.) That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
Form (n.) A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
Form (n.) The seat or bed of a hare.
Form (n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Form (n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
Form (n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
Form (n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
Form (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
Form (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
Formed (imp. & p. p.) of Form
Forming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Form
Form (n.) To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
Form (n.) To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
Form (n.) To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
Form (n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
Form (n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
Form (v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
Form (v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare.
Formal (n.) See Methylal.
Formal (a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
Formal (a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
Formal (a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
Formal (a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
Formal (a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
Formal (a.) Dependent in form; conventional.
Formal (a.) Sound; normal.
Formaldehyde (n.) A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
Formalism (n.) The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
Formalist (n.) One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
Formalities (pl. ) of Formality
Formality (n.) The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
Formality (n.) Form without substance.
Formality (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
Formality (n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
Formality (n.) That which is formal; the formal part.
Formality (n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
Formality (n.) The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.
Formalized (imp. & p. p.) of Formalize
Formalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Formalize
Formalize (v. t.) To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
Formalize (v. t.) To render formal.
Formalize (v. i.) To affect formality.
Formally (adv.) In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
Formate (n.) A salt of formic acid.
Formation (n.) The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
Formation (n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
Formation (n.) A substance formed or deposited.
Formation (n.) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
Formation (n.) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.
Formation (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
Formative (a.) Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
Formative (a.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.
Formative (n.) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
Formative (n.) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
Forme (a.) Same as Pate or Patte.
Forme (a.) First.
Formed (a.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
Formed (a.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.
Formedon (n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
Formell (n.) The female of a hawk or falcon.
Former (n.) One who forms; a maker; a creator.
Former (n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
Former (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
Former (n.) A cutting die.
Former (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
Former (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
Former (a.) Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
Formeret (n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
Formerly (adv.) In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
Formful (a.) Creative; imaginative.
Formic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.
Formica (n.) A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.
Formicaroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes.
Formicary (n.) The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
Formicate (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
Formication (n.) A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Formicid (a.) Pertaining to the ants.
Formicid (n.) One of the family Formicidae, or ants.
Formidability (n.) Formidableness.
Formidable (a.) Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
Formidableness (n.) The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
Formidably (adv.) In a formidable manner.
Formidolose (a.) Very much afraid.
Forming (n.) The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.
Formless (a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Formulas (pl. ) of Formula
Formulae (pl. ) of Formula
Formula (n.) A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
Formula (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
Formula (n.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.