Type vs. Form
Typenoun
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
Typenoun
An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
Typenoun
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
Typenoun
A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
Typenoun
(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
Typenoun
Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
Typenoun
(taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
Typenoun
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
Typenoun
(medicine) A blood group.
Typenoun
(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
Typenoun
(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
Typenoun
(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
Typenoun
(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
Typenoun
(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
Typeverb
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
Typeverb
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
Typeverb
To determine the blood type of.
Typeverb
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
Typeverb
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
Typeverb
To categorize into types.
Typenoun
The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
Typenoun
Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
Typenoun
A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; - correlative to antitype.
Typenoun
That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.
Typenoun
The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
Typenoun
A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.
Typenoun
A simple compound, used as a model or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
Typeverb
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
Typeverb
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
Typenoun
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing;
Typenoun
a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
Typenoun
(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
Typenoun
printed characters;
Typenoun
a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;
Typenoun
all of the tokens of the same symbol;
Typeverb
write by means of a keyboard with types;
Typeverb
identify as belonging to a certain type;
Typenoun
a category of people or things having common characteristics
Typenoun
a person of a specified character or nature
Typenoun
the sort of person one likes or finds attractive
Typenoun
a person or thing exemplifying the ideal or defining characteristics of something
Typenoun
an object, conception, or work of art serving as a model for subsequent artists.
Typenoun
a symbol of someone or something
Typenoun
a person or event in the Old Testament taken as a foreshadowing of someone or something in the New Testament.
Typenoun
an organism or taxon chosen as having the essential characteristics of its group.
Typenoun
short for type specimen
Typenoun
characters or letters that are printed or shown on a screen
Typenoun
a piece of metal with a raised letter or character on its upper surface, for use in letterpress printing.
Typenoun
metal types used in letterpress printing
Typenoun
a design on either side of a medal or coin.
Typenoun
an abstract category or class of linguistic item or unit, as distinct from actual occurrences in speech or writing.
Typeverb
write (something) on a typewriter or computer by pressing the keys
Typeverb
determine the type to which (a person or their blood or tissue) belongs
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;
