Word Finder - form

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(heading, physical) To do with shape.

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(social) To do with structure or procedure.

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

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To apply for the position, complete the application form.

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A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

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Level of performance.

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The orchestra was on top form this evening.

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

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participial forms;  verb forms

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The den or home of a hare.

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A window or dialogue box.

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An infraspecific rank.

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

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A quantic.

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(fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.

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To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

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When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

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

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Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

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To take shape.

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When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

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To put together or bring into being; assemble.

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

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To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

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By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

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To constitute, to compose, to make up.

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Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

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To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

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Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

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To provide (a hare) with a form.

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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.

As she reached the tree, a large black furry form crashed into the trees ahead of her.

Sofia saw the tears form in her gaze.

Han asked, his form blurry in front of her.

She placed the form in front of her on the counter and began filling it out.

The worst of it was when I got that adoption form in the mail today.

She hadn't expected it to form so fast or so strong.

I just don't believe in hitting as a form of punishment.

This is a form of wealth.

His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by Madame de Souza.

I then guided her hand to form the sentence, "Cat does drink milk."

And then she saw the note clipped to the adoption form.

Weller rose, picking up a form from his desk.

It does not react with the alkali metals, but combines with magnesium at a low red heat to form a boride, and with other metals at more or less elevated temperatures.

This simple form of crane thus embodies the essential elements of foundation, post, framework, jib, tie-rods and gearing.

In another form but along the same path of reflection the other sciences have proceeded.

In this form the seventh day's rest was one of the few outward ordinances by which the Israelite could still show his fidelity to Yahweh and mark his separation from the heathen.

A larger product of the vine was in the form of raisins and currants, of which quantities were exported to Russia.

In 1874 the Malay state of Perak was placed under British protection by a treaty entered into with its sultan; and this eventually led to the inclusion in a British protectorate of the neighbouring Malay States of Selangor, Sungei Ujong, the cluster of small states called the Negri Sembilan and Pahang, which now form the Federated Malay States.

The special form of government was not the important point, but its possibility and its acceptability.

In its original form, the doctrine of " arrest of development," as advocated by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Serres, was no doubt an over-statement of the case.

Their approximate form was only arrived at by excavations made during the later years of the 19th century.

The highest form of the doctrine is scientific materialism, by which term is meant the doctrine so commonly adopted by the physicist, zoologist and biologist.

It constituted the most common form of divination in ancient Babylonia, where it can be traced back to the 3rd millennium B.C. Among the Etruscans the prominence of the rite led to the liver being looked upon as the trade-mark of the priest.

It has large coal mines, which form the south-western portion of the extensive Upper Silesian coal fields, the largest Austrian deposit.

These rocks form the greater part of the central range, and they are often - especially the granite - decomposed and rotten to a considerable depth.

Evergreen oaks and Conifers form the forests.

Coins of Ceos exhibit the head of Aristaeus and Sirius in the form of a dog crowned with rays.

One form such a detector takes is the bolometer.

Tossett or Toppid and Turaw mountains command extensive prospects, and form striking features in the scenery of the county.

The interior is in the form of a basilica, the double aisles being borne by ancient columns, and contains ambones and a candelabrum of 1311, the former resting on columns supported by lions, and decorated with reliefs and coloured marble mosaic. The castle at the highest point of the town was erected in the 14th century.

The spreading branches have a tendency to assume a tortuous form, owing to the central shoots becoming abortive, and the growth thus being continued laterally, causing a zigzag development, more exaggerated in old trees and those standing in From Kotschy, op. cit.

The catkins appear soon after the young leaves, usually in England towards the end of May; the acorns, oblong in form, are in shallow cups with short, scarcely projecting scales; the fruit is shed the first autumn, often before the foliage changes.

The tree will continue to form wood for i 50 or 200 years before showing any symptoms of decay.

The shores are covered with coral; earthquakes and tidal waves are frequent, the latter not taking the form of bores, but of a sudden steady rise and equally sudden fall in the level of the sea; the climate is rather tropical than temperate, but sickness is almost unknown among the residents.

They are now by many systematists united with the Acanthocephala and the Nematomorpha to form the group Nemathelminthes.

Although several species belonging to the second class occasionally enter the bodies of water snails and other animals before reaching their definitive host, they undergo no alteration of form in this intermediate host; the case is different, however, in Filaria medinensis and other forms, in which a free larval is followed by a parasitic existence in two distinct hosts, all the changes being accompanied by a metamorphosis.

A third form, Microfilaria diurna, is found in the larval stage in blood, but only in the daytime.

Though a distinct borough it is united on the west with Rochester and on the east with Gillingham, so that the three boroughs form, in appearance, a single town with a population which in 1901 exceeded 110,000.

The whole number of this race is 620,229, and nowhere do they form a majority of the whole population in a state; but they are strongest, numerically, in the northern states and in Udaipur.

Marriage retained the form of purchase, but was essentially a contract to be man and wife together.

The form in general use on the British postal lines is the " Cordeaux screw," but the " Varley double cup " is still employed, especially by the railway companies.

This form of relay is largely used, but in Great Britain it has been entirely .flisplaced by the form shown in fig.

The operator actuates a typewriter form of perforator which punches varying groups of holes, representing the different characters, in a paper strip about one inch wide.

This operation occupies about twelve seconds, giving a message written in column form ready for delivery.

With this modified form somewhat greater speed was obtained, but it was found difficult to drive, requiring the use of steam or some such motive-power.

Hughes's form was taken up by the French government in 1860, and is very largely in use not only in France but in all European countries, including Great Britain.

The Baudot apparatus can have certain channels extended so as to form a means of continuous communication between one station and two or three others by means of one line.

In the Murray system the messages are first prepared in the form of a strip of perforated paper about half an inch wide.

The messages in the form of perforated tape are then passed through an automatic transmitter, something like a Wheatstone transmitter, at a speed of about 100 words a minute.

This received perforated tape is then used to control what is known as the printer or automatic typewriter, a machine that translates the tape perforations into letters and prints the messages in Roman type in page form.