Form vs. Formular

Formnoun

To do with shape.

Formnoun

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Formnoun

A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

Formnoun

Characteristics not involving atomic components. en

Formnoun

(dated) A long bench with no back.

Formnoun

(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

Formnoun

(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Formnoun

(social) To do with structure or procedure.

Formnoun

An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

Formnoun

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.

Formnoun

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

Formnoun

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.

Formnoun

(archaic) A class or rank in society.

Formnoun

(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).

Formnoun

A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

Level of performance.

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

The den or home of a hare.

Formnoun

A window or dialogue box.

Formnoun

Essentials

Formnoun

(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

(geometry) A quantic.

Formnoun

A specific way of performing a movement.

Formverb

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

Formverb

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

Formverb

(intransitive) To take shape.

Formverb

To put together or bring into being; assemble.

Formverb

To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

Formverb

(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.

Formverb

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

Formverb

To provide (a hare) with a form.

Formverb

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.

Formnoun

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.

Formnoun

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

Formnoun

A shape; an image; a phantom.

Formnoun

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

Formnoun

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

Formnoun

The seat or bed of a hare.

Formnoun

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

Formnoun

The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.

Formnoun

The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

Formnoun

The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Formnoun

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.

Formnoun

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.

Formnoun

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

Formverb

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

Formverb

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.

Formverb

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.

Formverb

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.

Formverb

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

Formverb

To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition 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 now the plates or grids are 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.

Formverb

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

Formverb

To run to a form, as a hare.

Formnoun

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;

Formnoun

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

Formnoun

a perceptual structure;

Formnoun

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);

Formnoun

alternative names for the body of a human being;

Formnoun

the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;

Formnoun

the visual appearance of something or someone;

Formnoun

(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;

Formnoun

a printed document with spaces in which to write;

Formnoun

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

Formnoun

an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;

Formnoun

a particular mode in which something is manifested;

Formnoun

a body of students who are taught together;

Formnoun

an ability to perform well;

Formnoun

a life-size dummy used to display clothes

Formnoun

a mold for setting concrete;

Formverb

to compose or represent:

Formverb

create (as an entity);

Formverb

develop into a distinctive entity;

Formverb

give a shape or form to;

Formverb

make something, usually for a specific function;

Formverb

establish or impress firmly in the mind;

Formverb

give shape to;

Formularadjective

following or relating to a formula; formulaic