form

1. n. A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. Source: opted

4. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. Source: opted

5. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Source: opted

6. n. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. Source: opted

7. n. A shape; an image; a phantom. Source: opted

8. n. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. Source: opted

9. n. A long seat; a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/bench">bench; hence, a rank of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/students">students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. Source: opted

10. n. The seat or bed of a hare. Source: opted

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

12. n. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. Source: opted

13. n. The word/particular">particular word/shape">shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. Source: opted

14. n. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. Source: opted

15. 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. Source: opted

16. 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. Source: opted

17. n. The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. Source: opted

18. n. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. Source: opted

19. 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. Source: opted

20. 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. Source: opted

21. n. To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. Source: opted

22. n. To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. Source: opted

23. v. i. To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column. Source: opted

24. v. i. To run to a form, as a hare. Source: opted

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