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单词 to form on
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to form on
b. reflexive and intransitive. Of troops, ships, etc.: To arrange themselves in or assume some particular disposition or formation, according to prescribed rules. Also with up. to form on (some other body): see quot. 1802.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > form (line, column, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > stand in line with
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to form on1799
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 279 Our Army form'd immediately.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 494 The first Squadrons..had much ado to form themselves.
1795 Ld. Nelson 10 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 11 The Admiral made the signal to form in the Order of Battle.
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 102 They will at once form up.
1799 G. Harris in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 119 The right wing of the army under my command formed on the picquets of the right.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To Form on, is to advance forward, so as to connect yourself with any given object of formation, and to lengthen the line.
1803 G. Lake in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 405 The infantry formed in two columns.
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley viii. 126 The soldiers formed themselves round the waggon.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Riflemen Form! ii Form, Form, Riflemen Form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm!
1883 Army Corps Orders in Standard 22 Mar. 3/3 When the ‘assemble’ sounds both Forces will form up by Brigades.
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