Word Finder - conform

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(of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.

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(of things, situations, etc.) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline.

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To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.

You must conform to the school's rules, or else you will get detention.

Aria tried her hardest to conform to the group of girls around her, but never seemed to succeed.

I am but too ready to conform to them.

They didn't like the new design but the engineers had toconform to the plan that the architect gave them.

That is, the instructions and assembler directives all conform to the standard required by the assembler.

The question, however, still remains, what motive any individual has to conform to these social principles when they conflict with his natural desires.

And so solar people have to conform to some rules, such as rules for good argumentation.

The story of the southern beau and Southern belle who fall in love, but he marries his cousin to conform to social pressure.

The woman beside her was far too subservient for her comfort; if their brother expected her behavior to conform, he was in for a surprise.

The views of the scholars at the Leipzig conference simply do not conform to the dominant paradigm.

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To conform to class 3 regulations it is supplied with a full light set, including indicators and hazard flashers.

While in the north he was active in forcing the recusants to conform to the Church of England, preaching hundreds of sermons and carrying out thorough visitations.

They broadly conform to the principles and processes outlined in the sections above.

Echoing his fierce esthetic independence, he did not conform to the image or lifestyle of his avant-garde colleagues.

The cafeteria must conform to the state's nutrition guidelines.

His bishop, Grindal, was his friend, and his vagaries were overlooked until 1566, when he resigned his living rather than conform.

The outer parts of these systems are little diluted by freshwater and typically conform to Annex I type 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays.

Such written material should conform to the RNIB clear print guidelines.

All of your work must conform to organizational procedures and budgetary limitations.

Authors ' initials should precede their names; journal title abbreviations should conform to the style of the American Physical Society.

However, his claustrophobic world and the huge pressure to conform proves inescapable.

Trusts which enjoy tax-exempt status must conform strictly to their remit and cannot disburse any surplus monies except to fulfill their stated objectives.

The rig is used to carry out full-scale bus rollover tests which conform to the ECE Regulation 66.

The cattle of Ankole, on the Uganda frontier, which have immense horns, conform to this type.

The cross-section of the cars was made to conform approximately to the section of the tunnel, the idea being that each train would act like a piston in a cylinder, expelling in front of it a column of air, to be forced up the station shaft next ahead of the train, and sucking down a similar column through the station shaft just behind.

Despite everyone's best intentions, ratings of computers don't conform to any sort of industry-wide standard.

The private schools usually conform to the official requirements in regard to studies and examinations, which facilitates subsequent admission to the university and the obtainment of degrees; probably they do better work than the public schools, especially in the German settlements of the southern provinces.

The British government adopted his negrophil attitude and made its agents at the Cape conform to it.

Great hills were razed and tumbled into the bay for the gain of land; others were pierced with cuts, to conform to street grades and to the checker-board city plan adopted in the early days.

Between these and the Cordillera Oriental is an apparently confused mass of broken, intersecting ranges, which on closer examination are found to conform more or less closely to the two outside ranges.

The power of the royal officials who constituted the executive government of Bohemia was greatly curtailed, and though the chief representative of the sovereign in Prague continued to bear the ancient title of supreme burgrave, he was instructed to conform in all matters to the orders of the central government of Vienna.

Cranmer, Ridley, Bucer and others urged him to submit in vain; confinement to his house by order of the Council proved equally ineffectual; and it was not until he had spent some weeks in the Fleet prison that the "father of nonconformity" consented to conform, and Hooper submitted to consecration with the legal ceremonies (March 8, 1551).

The bishops almost unanimously refused to conform, and a clean sweep was made of the episcopal bench.

We query the urge to make conjoined twins conform to societal norms.

Within a century pagans would be persecuted because they would not conform to the state religion that ensured the safety of the empire.

We have asked Berkeleys to redesign this junction - to conform to their stated policy of making the whole site permeable on foot.

The windows in the round nave were designed to conform to the style of glazing appropriate to the style of architecture.

We know the subdivision of the wood took place before the twelfth century, as parish boundaries conform to the divisions.

Thus, neither carbon tillers, nor tillers bonded to the head of the rudder, nor laminated rudders conform to the new rules.

They provide that irregular bands in order to enjoy recognition as belligerent forces shall (a) have at their head a person responsible for his subordinates, (b) wear some fixed distinctive badge recognizable at a distance, (c) carry arms openly, and (d) conform in their operations to the laws and customs of war.

In lacking a browtine, and dividing in a regular fork-like manner some distance above the burr, the large and cylindrical antlers of this species conform to the general structural type characteristic of the American deer.

The waters are used in cases of liver affections, gout, diabetes and obesity; and the patients must conform during the cure to a strictly regulated diet.

St Francis concurred in these measures, and, three years later, even requested that those who, as he said, "follow their heresy, rather as a party than a religion," should be ordered either to conform or to leave their country, with leave to sell their goods.

In 1840 he showed that when an electric current was produced by means of a dynamo-magneto-electric machine the heat generated in the conductor, when no external work was done by the current, was the same as if the energy employed in producing the current had been converted into heat by friction, thus showing that electric currents conform to the principle of the conservation of energy, since energy can neither be created nor destroyed by them.

Public instruction in Italy is regulated by the state, which maintains public schools of every grade, and requires that other public schools shall conform to the rules of the state schools.

Parliamentary pressure further obliged Bonghi, minister of public instruction, to compel clerical seminaries either to forgo the instruction of lay pupils or to conform to the laws of the state in regard to inspection and examination, an ordinance which gave rise to conflicts between ecclesiastical and lay authorities, and led to the forcible dissolution of the Mantua seminary and to the suppression of the Catholic university in Rome.

The Right also hoped that closer accord with Germany and Austria would compel Italy to conform her home policy more nearly to the principles of order prevailing in those empires.

After the death of Faustina and the pacification of Syria, Aurelius proceeded, on his return to Italy, through Athens, and was initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, the reason assigned for his doing so being that it was his custom to conform to the established rites of the countries he visited.

For the more "advanced" Churches, Lenten practice tends to conform to that of the pre-Reformation Church.