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form
English
Alternative forms
- forme (rare or archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin f?rma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m/
- Hyphenation: form
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Noun
form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)
- (heading, physical) To do with shape.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (dated) A long bench with no back.
- 1981, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 10:
- I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside […].
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography:
- The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms, as benches used to be called.
- 1981, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 10:
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (social) To do with structure or procedure.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- (archaic) A class or rank in society.
- ladies of a high form
- (Britain) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
- 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May:
- It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
- 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May:
- Level of performance.
- The team's form has been poor this year.
- The orchestra was on top form this evening.
- (Britain, education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
- 1928, George Bickerstaff, The mayor, and other folk
- One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in? […]"
- 1976, Ronald King, School and college: studies of post-sixteen education
- From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
- 1928, George Bickerstaff, The mayor, and other folk
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- The den or home of a hare.
- , I.iii.1.2:
- The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p.275:
- Hares left their snug ‘forms’ in the cold grass.
- , I.iii.1.2:
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- 1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
- While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.
- 2010, Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
- Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
- 1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
Synonyms
- (visible structure of a thing or person): shape; see also Thesaurus:shape
- (visible structure of a person): figure; see also Thesaurus:physique
- (thing that gives shape to other things): cast, cookie cutter, mold, pattern
- (mode of construction): configuration, makeup; see also Thesaurus:composition
- (blank document): formular
- (pre-collegiate level): grade
- (biology): f.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
form (third-person singular simple present forms, present participle forming, simple past and past participle formed)
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- the diplomatic politicians […] who formed by far the majority
- 1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in Boys' Life, Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608, p.10:
- Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays
- 'Tis education forms the common mind.
- Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
- 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
- (electrical, historical, transitive) 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.
Synonyms
- (give shape): beshape, transmogrify; see also Thesaurus:form
- (take shape): take form, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being
- (constitute): compose, make up; see also Thesaurus:compose
Related terms
- format
- formation
Translations
Further reading
- form in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- form in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- MoRF, from
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?rma (“shape, form”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?rm/, [f???m]
Noun
form c (singular definite formen, plural indefinite former)
- form
- shape
Declension
Noun
form c (singular definite formen, plural indefinite forme)
- mould
- tin (a metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.)
Declension
Further reading
- “form” in Den Danske Ordbog
- form on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
German
Verb
form
- singular imperative of formen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of formen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse form, from Latin forma (“form; figure, shape, appearance”), from f?rma (“form, figure, shape, appearance”) with an unknown descent, perhaps from some Etruscan *morma (*morma), connected by some with Ancient Greek ????? (morph?, “shape, form, appearance”), possibly of Pre-Greek origin.
Noun
form f or m (definite singular forma or formen, indefinite plural former, definite plural formene)
- form
- shape
- a mould (e.g. for cast products)
Derived terms
Related terms
- forme
Etymology 2
Verb
form
- imperative of forme
References
- “form” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin forma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?rm/
Noun
form f (definite singular forma, indefinite plural former, definite plural formene)
- form
- shape
- a mould (e.g. for cast products)
Derived terms
Related terms
- -forma
- forme
References
- “form” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish forma, borrowed from Latin forma.
Pronunciation
Noun
form c
- a form, a shape
- a form, a mold, a dish, a tray, a tin, a piece of ovenware
Declension
Related terms
- shape
- cirkelform
- ellipsform
- forma
- mold
- formfranska
- formgjuta
- gjutform
- kakform
- knäckform
- pajform
Anagrams
- fr.o.m., from
Turkish
Etymology
From French forme.
Noun
form (definite accusative formu, plural formlar)
- form
Declension
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channel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æn?l/
- Hyphenation: chan?nel
- Rhymes: -æn?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin can?lis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- The navigable part of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology
- The veins are converging channels.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
- (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
- (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
- (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter
Derived terms
Related terms
- canal
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (channeru)
- ? Korean: ?? (chaeneol)
- ? Welsh: sianel
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
- backchannel
Translations
Etymology 3
From a corruption of chainwale.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
References
- channel at OneLook Dictionary Search
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