Form

1. external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form. 2. the shape of a thing or person. 3. a body, especially that of a human being. 4. a dummy having the same measurements as a human body, used for fitting or displaying clothing: a dressmaker's form. 5. something that gives or determines shape; a mold. 6. a particular condition, character, or mode in which something appears: water in the form of ice. 7. the manner or style of arranging and coordinating parts for a pleasing or effective result, as in literary or musical composition: a unique form for the novel. 8. Fine Arts. the organization, placement, or relationship of basic elements, as lines and colors in a painting or volumes and voids in a sculpture, so as to produce a coherent image; the formal structure of a work of art. three-dimensional quality or volume, as of a represented object or anatomical part. an object, person, or part of the human body or the appearance of any of these, especially as seen in nature: His work is characterized by the radical distortion of the human form. 9. any assemblage of things of a similar kind constituting a component of a group, especially of a zoological group. 10. Crystallography. the combination of all the like faces possible on a crystal of given symmetry. 11. due or proper shape; orderly arrangement of parts; good order. 12. Philosophy. the structure, pattern, organization, or essential nature of anything. structure or pattern as distinguished from matter. (initial capital letter) Platonism. idea (def 7c). Aristotelianism. that which places a thing in its particular species or kind. 13. Logic. the abstract relations of terms in a proposition, and of propositions to one another. 14. a set, prescribed, or customary order or method of doing something. 15. a set order of words, as for use in religious ritual or in a legal document: a form for initiating new members. 16. a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form. 17. a typical document to be used as a guide in framing others for like cases: a form for a deed. 18. a conventional method of procedure or behavior: society's forms. 19. a formality or ceremony, often with implication of absence of real meaning: to go through the outward forms of a religious wedding. 20. procedure according to a set order or method. 21. conformity to the usages of society; formality; ceremony: the elaborate forms prevalent in the courts of renaissance kings. 22. procedure or conduct, as judged by social standards: Such behavior is very bad form. Good form demands that we go. 23. manner or method of performing something; technique: The violin soloist displayed tremendous form. 24. physical condition or fitness, as for performing: a tennis player in peak form. 25. Grammar. a word, part of a word, or group of words forming a construction that recurs in various contexts in a language with relatively constant meaning. Compare linguistic form. a particular shape of such a form that occurs in more than one shape. In I'm, 'm is a form of am. a word with a particular inflectional ending or other modification. Goes is a form of go. 26. Linguistics. the shape or pattern of a word or other construction (distinguished from substance). 27. Building Trades. temporary boarding or sheeting of plywood or metal for giving a desired shape to poured concrete, rammed earth, etc. 28. a grade or class of pupils in a British secondary school or in certain U.S. private schools: boys in the fourth form. 29. British. a bench or long seat. 30. Also, British, forme. Printing. an assemblage of types, leads, etc., secured in a chase to print from.