forms
UK/fɔːmz//fɔɹmz/
forms is the plural of form.
forms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of form.
Meaning of form
Noun
form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)
- 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
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Synonyms:
- cast, cookie cutter, mold, pattern
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- 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.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- 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
Phrases with forms
- T forms
- 6th forms
- art forms
- pet forms
- base forms
- book forms
- cusp forms
- life forms
- rise forms
- verb forms
- word forms
- basic forms
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- bound forms
- claim forms
- count forms
- crude forms
- dress forms
- leuco forms
- logic forms
- short forms
- sixth forms
- breast forms
- closed forms
- growth forms
- linear forms
- normal forms
- racing forms
- splice forms
- vertex forms
- closing forms
- echelon forms
- Killing forms
- logical forms
- modular forms
- absolute forms
- argument forms
- bilinear forms
- citation forms
- expanded forms
- Legendre forms
- printing forms
- standard forms
- canonical forms
- combining forms
- quadratic forms
- collateral forms
- dictionary forms
- forms of address
- hesitation forms
- polynomial forms
- underlying forms
- application forms
- Backus-Naur forms
- multilinear forms
- row echelon forms
- differential forms
- third normal forms
- forms of government
- second normal forms
- clausal normal forms
- column echelon forms
- Carlson symmetric forms
- conjunctive normal forms
- reduced row echelon forms
- canonical conjunctive normal forms
Words that rhyme with forms
Questions about forms
- What is forms the plural of?
- Forms is the plural of form.
- How do you pronounce forms?
- Forms is pronounced /fɔːmz/ (UK).
Words near forms in the dictionary
Source and license
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