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- [fawrm]
- /fɔrm/
- /fɔːm/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [fawrm]
- /fɔrm/
Definitions of form word
- noun form external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form. 1
- noun form the shape of a thing or person. 1
- noun form a body, especially that of a human being. 1
- noun form a dummy having the same measurements as a human body, used for fitting or displaying clothing: a dressmaker's form. 1
- noun form something that gives or determines shape; a mold. 1
- noun form a particular condition, character, or mode in which something appears: water in the form of ice. 1
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Origin of form
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; Middle English forme < Old French < Latin fōrma form, figure, model, mold, sort, Medieval Latin: seat
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Form
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
form popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
form usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for form
noun form
- style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- fashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- pattern — a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
- system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
verb form
- compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
- organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
- set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
Antonyms for form
noun form
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- shapeless — having no definite or regular shape or form: a shapeless mass of clay.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
verb form
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
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