Word Finder - forms

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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.

All forms of online media are exploding in a similar fashion.

Amid the chaos, a nurse calmly filled out forms in a method­ical fashion, looking as if the second coming of Christ wouldn't ruf­fle her.

She backed away slowly, flashing the light on the forms, and then ducked into the barn, grabbing a feed sack she remembered throwing beside the barn door.

The forms were getting braver, darting out from the trees and then retreating when she flashed the light in that direction.

Biographical information on her and her immediate family, her own medical and employment histories, all forms she'd completed without question.

There was a long pause before she sensed him change forms behind her.

A few can assume forms, but they.re rare, he said.

Damian lifted his head, indicating the three forms standing at the top of the hill.

Two forms stepped between them and the portal, blocking it.

She.d barely left it when it slammed open, and two furry forms barreled into the room, snarling and fighting.

Her eyes fell to the entryway in front of the elegant building in which she stayed, then to the street further down, where several forms moved from beneath a canopy, trailed by a shadow darker than night.

She looked back toward Andre's apartment, surprised to see two dark forms on the ledge following her.

Three forms with glowing tattoos were moving slowly toward the road, stopping to sift through the dead bodies.

It forms green prisms which are readily soluble in water.

We're infusing different charges on different forms of flora.

There were biographical forms and consent forms she hadn't really read, all signed in a loopy, angry signature, and a copy of Toby's birth certificate.

Kris waited for him to change forms.

There was ice everywhere, a panoply of shapes and forms.

As she emerged from the barn, one of the forms was nearing the circle of light.

Dan bypassed the mansion and led him towards the lake, where two forms stood on a large dock.

Katie followed, trailed closely by Deidre.  The sounds of their escape were nothing compared to the sounds of what followed.  Katie cast a look over her shoulder and saw several demons had dropped into the jungle and transformed into panther-like forms.  She stopped and reached into the pouch slung across her chest.

The iodide, Co12, is produced by heating cobalt and iodine together, and forms a greyish-green mass which dissolves readily in water forming a red solution.

It is in these parasitic forms that we meet with the method of reproduction by sporogony described above.

The tension of the stiff forms in the foyer was overwhelming.

He'd been fevered for a zillion years, trapped in the tiny cell in ever-changing forms, always in darkness.

A touch of coolness grazed his heated frame, which always grew hotter than Hell when he changed forms.

She slumped in a chair at the kitchen table, eyes blurring as she struggled to make out the forms.

She returned to the desk and scoured the paperwork for some sort of identifying information on the place she'd been or the company that developed the forms.

She'd grown up never having seen death, and in the past week, she'd seen it in its most gruesome forms.

The male voice came from nowhere and everywhere and disturbed the two naked forms on the dark grey bed.

After the young couple took their key and fairly skipped away, the old man retreated to the back room, leaving Dean alone with the stack of registration forms.

Dean copied the information from the forms, including the license num­bers, and then rang the bell summoning the manager.

They reached the beach, and Darian saw his young brother wielding a sword in complex weapons forms.

Her most trusted friend and servant bowed and returned to the dark forms.

There were a great many children whose cheerful voices and tiny forms darted by him several times.

With piercing war cries, two forms broke from the horde before her.

Their great hulking forms and throaty grunts enhanced the theme of western frontier.

She scanned over the comfortable furniture and past the living room to a large kitchen and dining area before her gaze returned to the two forms seated on the balcony.

It forms double chlorides with the alkaline chlorides.

And, if to satisfy these we were forced to maintain the existence of a world of moral standards, it was, thirdly, necessary to form some opinion as to the relation of these moral standards of value to the forms and facts of phenomenal existence.

To comprehend the real position we are forced to the conviction that the world of facts is the field in which, and that laws are the means by which, those higher standards of moral and aesthetical value are being realized; and such a union can again only become intelligible through the idea of a personal Deity, who in the creation and preservation of a world has voluntarily chosen certain forms and laws, through the natural operation of which the ends of His work are gained.

We have already mentioned the final conception in which Lotze's speculation culminates, that of a personal Deity, Himself the essence of all that merits existence for its own sake, who in the creation and government of a world has voluntarily chosen certain laws and forms through which His ends are to be realized.

It is covered with numerous large papillae, and forms, like the trunk of the elephant, an admirable organ for the examination and prehension of food.

With calm courage he returned to his poverty and his favourite studies, and in 1725 published the first edition of the work that forms the basis of his renown, Principii d'una scienza nuova.

In Rhabdopleura each zooid forms its own delicate tube composed of a characteristic series of distinct rings.

A ventral vessel occurs on the anterior side of the metasome and forms a loop extending down the entire length of the stalk, while a " heart " projects into the cavity of the pericardium, probably connected on the ventral side of the notochord with the ventral vessel, and on its dorsal side with the dorsal vessel.

It forms dark red crystals isomorphous with ferrous sulphate, and readily soluble in water.

This salt may be used for the separation of cobalt and nickel, since the latter metal does not form a similar double nitrite, but it is necessary that the alkaline earth metals should be absent, for in their presence nickel forms complex nitrites containing the alkaline earth metal and the alkali metal.

It forms monoclinic crystals which are very soluble in water.

Cattle and sheep are produced in large numbers in some of the provinces, while in others mining forms the chief industry.