Definition of "form" in İngilizce

noun

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.

   • To apply for the position, complete the application form.

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.

   • participial forms;  verb forms

6. The den or home of a hare.

   • 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.

7. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.

8. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

9. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

10. (geometry) A quantic.

11. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.

verb

1. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

   • When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

2. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

   • Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

3. (intransitive) To take shape.

   • When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

4. To put together or bring into being; assemble.

   • The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
   • Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

5. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

   • By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

6. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.

   • Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
   • Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.

7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

   • Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
   • 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 'Tis education forms the common mind.

8. To provide (a hare) with a form.