Definition and Meaning of FORM

form means :

• A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
• The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
• Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
• Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
• Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
• Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
• A shape; an image; a phantom.
• That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
• A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
• The seat or bed of a hare.
• The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
• The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
• The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
• The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
• That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
• The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
• To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
• To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
• To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
• To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
• To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
• To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
• To run to a form, as a hare.