Word Finder - formed

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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.

A thin white line formed around his lips.

Tears formed in her eyes.

He's well formed, slender, not too tall, and strong - but bends with the wind.

He was not a very large man, but was well formed and had a beautiful face--calm and serene as the face of a fine portrait.

A trail formed in any direction he wanted to walk.

The mating bond present last night formed anew the moment he healed her from the demon attack.

Tears formed in her eyes at the heartbreaking sound of his pain.

A lump formed in her throat and tears spilled from her eyes.

A middle-aged woman entered the room, her hands full of hamburger meat as she formed a patty.

Fire formed in her stomach, racing through her.

A new emotion formed.

Their truce was formed pre-Schism; they had no choice but to be friendly to one another.

More tears formed, but she pushed them away.

The people of Mangaboo now formed themselves into a procession and marched toward the glass city to escort their new ruler to her palace and to perform those ceremonies proper to the occasion.

They had evidently both formed the same resolution; the eyes of both shone with satisfaction and a confession that besides sorrow life also has joy.

His opponent would be disposed to say that the iodine and the mercury ceased to exist when the red powder was formed, that they were components but not constituents of it.

He soon began to attract attention by the memoires which he read before his colleagues - papers which formed the first draft of his comprehensive work on ideology.

His ideology, he frankly stated, formed "a part of zoology," or, as we should say, of biology.

It is formed by the junction of the Bafing or Black river and the Bakhoy or White river, and its chief affluent is the Faleme.

Cobalt dioxide, Co02, has not yet been isolated in the pure state; it is probably formed when iodine and caustic soda are added to a solution of a cobaltous salt.

But during the whole of this active life, many details of which are very interesting as illustrative of the life and manners of the time, he never lost sight of a design which he had formed at a very early period, of writing the history of those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages and events.

I think that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without there being at the same time organization, development and multiplication of globules, or the continued consecutive life of globules already formed."

This body is being continually formed in the yeast cell, and decomposes the sugar which has diffused into the cell.

In most cases four spores are formed within the cell by free formation.

Duclaux found that acetic acid is formed in small quantities during fermentation; aldehyde has also been detected.

But he did not fulfil the expectations which had been formed on the strength`' of his colonial reputation; he took no very prominent part in debate, and gave little evidence of his undoubted oratorical gifts.

Leo at once formed a new league with the emperor and the king of Spain, and to ensure English support made Wolsey a cardinal.

On each side of this is a curve formed of two rows of -HH a From Papers of the British School at Rome, v.

Its width is as a rule about 24 ft.; at present its surface is formed of rough cobbling, upon which there was probably a gravel layer, now washed away.

The name "flock" is given to a material formed of wool or cotton refuse, or of shreds of old woollen or cotton rags, torn by a machine known as a "devil."

Rough sculptures, too, were found, and two large square mounds formed of loose stones, and yet perfect parallelograms in outline, placed due east and west.

The bones are delicately formed, and there is the lack of calf usual in black races.

A population of 30,000, three- New fourths of them convicts, formed the infant common- South wealth, whose attention was soon directed to the profit- wales.

The six colonies entering the Commonwealth were denominated original states, and new states might be admitted, or might be formed by separation from or union of two or more states or parts of states; and territories (as distinguished from Provisions states) might be taken over and governed under the legis- of the Act lative power of the Commonwealth.

This subsequently formed the first plank of the Labour platform.

The party is, however, formed on a broader basis than the state parties, the solidarity pledge extends only to votes upon which the fate of a government depends.

The most durable of fences are those formed of small oaks, split lengthwise by the wedge into thin boards.

As main arteries for this circulation of water through its system great canals, constituting in reality so many branches of the river, connected all parts of Babylonia, and formed a natural means both of defence and also of transportation from one part of the country to another.

The Athenian eb rarpl8at, who were thus gradually brought down from their privileged position, seem to have been quite as proud and exclusive as the Roman patricians; but when they lost their privileges they lost them far more thoroughly, and they did not, as at Rome, practically hand on many of them to a new nobility, of which they formed part, though not the whole.

Cleisthenes, for instance, enfranchised many slaves and strangers, a course which certainly formed no part of the platform of Licinius, and which reminds us rather of Gnaeus Flavius somewhat later.

If so, there would be no place in Athens for those great plebeian houses, once patrician in some other commonwealth, out of which the later Roman nobilitas was so largely formed.

The creek flowed over a succession of rock ledges and formed pools at the edge where tadpoles swam.

Her thoughts went to Jonny, and she closed her eyes as tears formed.

He gathered his power, and an orb of light formed in his hands.

The two together formed a totally incompatible combination, yet Josh Mulligan, at least according to the curmudgeons, was a runner, too.

Fountains shot up from the newly formed lake nearby, and the ground rumbled again.

A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.

His shoulders and hips formed a triangle that rippled with movement.

The disulphide, IrS2, is formed when powdered iridium is heated with sulphur and an alkaline carbonate.

We have still to mention that aesthetics formed a principal and favourite study of Lotze's, and that he has treated this subject also in the light of the leading ideas of his philosophy.