forme

Noun

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

1. (physical) The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
   • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

   Synonyms:

   figure, shape

2. (physical) A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

   Synonyms:

   cast, cookie cutter, mold, pattern

3. (physical) Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
4. (physical) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
5. (physical) Characteristics not involving atomic components.
6. (dated, physical) A long bench with no back.
   • And there with syr Launcelot wrapped his mantel aboute his arme wel and surely and by thenne they had geten a grete fourme oute of the halle and there with all they rasshed at the dore […].1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iv, leaf 401v

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