form¹ /förm/

1. Shape
2. A mould
3. Something that holds or shapes, eg a piece of formwork (see below)
4. A species or kind
5. A pattern or type
6. A way of being
7. A manner of arrangement
8. Order
9. Regularity
10. System, eg of government
11. Beauty (obsolete)
12. Style and arrangement
13. Structural unity in music, literature, painting, etc
14. A prescribed set of words or course of action
15. Ceremony
16. Behaviour
17. Condition of fitness or efficiency
18. A schedule to be filled in with details
19. A specimen document for imitation
20. The inherent nature of an object (philosophy)
21. That in which the essence of a thing consists (philosophy)
22. A complete set of crystal faces similar with respect to the symmetry of the crystal (crystallography)
23. Forme (printing)
24. A long seat or bench
25. A school class
26. The bed of a hare, shaped by the animal's body
27. A criminal record (slang)
28. The condition of fitness of eg a horse or athlete
29. A record of past performance of an athlete, horse, etc
30. (with the) the correct procedure (informal)
31. (with the) the situation or position (informal)

1. To give form or shape to
2. To bring into being
3. To make
4. To contrive
5. To conceive in the mind
6. To go to make up
7. To constitute
8. To establish

To assume a form

formˈable adjective

formˈative adjective

1. Giving form, determining, moulding
2. Capable of development
3. Growing
4. Serving to form words by derivation or inflection, not radical (grammar)

1. A derivative (old)
2. A formative element
3. Any grammatical element from which words and sentences are constructed

formed adjective

formˈer noun

1. Someone or something that forms, shapes or moulds
2. A tool for giving a coil or winding the correct shape (elec eng)

formˈing noun

formˈless adjective

formˈlessly adverb

formˈlessness noun

formative assessment noun (education)

The use of continuous assessment to provide feedback on a pupil's progress and development

form class noun (linguistics)

A class of forms (words and phrases) that will fit into the same position in a construction

form critic noun

form criticism noun

Biblical criticism that classifies parts of scripture according to literary form and relates literary forms to historical background

form feed noun (computing)

A control character used to eject paper from a printer or to move the paper to the next page

form genus noun

A group of species with similar morphological characters, but which are not certainly known to be related in descent

form horse noun

The favourite, the expected winner (horse-racing; also figurative)

form letter noun

A letter with a fixed form and contents, used esp when writing to a number of people about the same or essentially similar matters

• tailleurs
• taillie
• taillies
• tail light
• tail-like
• tail male
• tail of
• tail off
• tail of the eye
• tailor
• tailorbird
• tailorbirds
• tailored
• tailoress
• tailoring
• tailorings
• tailor-made
• tailormade
• tailormake
• tailormakes
• tailormaking
• tailors
• tailor's chalk
• tailor's chalks
• tailor's tack