Form

/fɔːm/ · noun

Meaning

(heading, physical) To do with shape..

Definitions by Sense

1. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
2. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
3. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
4. A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
5. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
6. The den or home of a hare.
7. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
8. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

Example Sentences

To apply for the position, complete the application form.

participial forms;  verb forms

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.

Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme[…].

Hares left their snug ‘forms’ in the cold grass.

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.

Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.

And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.

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• forme
• forming
• formed
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• formest
• formedst
• formeth
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