🗂️ A type or kind 📄 A document 👥 To create a group 👐 To make or shape 🔷 Shape or structure ☁️ To take shape 🏅 Performance level 🌊 To make up 🦠 A variant group 🔤 Word shape 🧱 A mold or frame 👩‍🎓 A student group 🧠 To establish 🧍 A mannequin

form

7 6.8

A frame that holds wet concrete until it hardens

noun
/fɔrm/

Specialized

: encofrado

Most of the EPA and DHA inside a fish exist in the form of triglycerides.

And then we'll wrap it around the wreath form on the inside and then pull tight.

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Examples

The passages we needed were already in the form, but we had to build frames around them for extra support.

Fiction book (2001)
Before pouring the concrete, make sure the form is securely in place to hold its shape.
So I would take my tape, I would measure down and pin it to the form in those places.

Zoe Hong
I got there and every form was full of cement.

Ratpocalypse (2015)
I built one form and then ripped it apart and started again.

Fiction book (1995)
George is knocking away the forms used to pour the foundation.

Fiction book (2001)
The next major task was to carve the back and belly into the correct form.

Academic text (1994)
Trace the form of the USB plug and cut that rectangle out.
A subtle symmetrical pattern is created by alternating identical plates down the center of the triangular form.

Academic text (2009)
He checked the measurements twice to ensure the form was accurate for the project.

Synonyms

formwork

vsform

Specialized

1 7.5

A temporary mold that holds poured concrete until it hardens

is a mold or frame used to shape poured concrete without implying temporariness

former

vsform

Specialized

1 9.0

A tool like a mold that shapes materials

is specific to shaping poured concrete rather than materials in general

Idioms

true to form

Informal

10 4.1

Happening or acting in the usual way as before

to return to form

5 4.6

Get back to a previous good level of ability after a time of decline

in rare form

Informal

4 7.6

Doing something much better than usual with extra energy

in no way, shape, or form

3 5.6

It is not true or possible in any way

Compounds

life form

143 2.8

A plant, an animal, or a tiny organism

art form

59 3.2

A particular type of art, like music, painting, or dance

tax form

Formal

16 2.8

An official paper you use to tell the government how much money you earn and owe in tax

application form

9 2.0

A document with questions to fill in when you apply for a job or a course

good form

9 4.9

Polite behavior people expect in social situations

form letter

7 3.2

A letter sent to many people with the same text

order form

6 2.0

A printed or online page you fill to ask for goods and services

requisition form

Formal

5 4.1

An official paper you use to ask for supplies or services from an organization

free form

Specialized

4 6.5

A small part of language that can be a whole word

claim form

Formal

4 2.9

A document you fill in to ask for money back from an insurance company

plural form

1 1.6

A change in a word that shows more than one person or thing

form of address

1 3.4

A way of speaking used when you talk to someone to show their title or relationship

singular form

Specialized

1 1.8

The form of a word used for one person or thing

verse form

Literature

1 7.0

A type of poem with a set number of lines and rhythm like a sonnet or haiku

life form

Specialized

1 3.4

The physical shape and parts of a plant or animal

form family

Specialized

1 9.9

A temporary group scientists use for plants or animals when it is not clear how they are related

sonata form

Specialized

1 8.6

A musical pattern with three main parts used at the start of many symphonies and sonatas

form book

Jargon

1 6.7

A record of past results and details about competitors that helps people decide bets

combining form

Specialized

1 8.1

A small word part from Greek or Latin that appears only inside longer words

imperative form

Specialized

1 4.4

A verb form used to give a command or request

word form

Specialized

1 4.1

A written or spoken version of a word showing its grammar and sound

telegraph form

Archaic

1 8.2

A printed form you use to write a telegram

form genus

Specialized

1 9.9

A temporary group for living things, often fossils, whose relations to others are unclear

leaf form

1 5.6

The shape of a plant leaf that helps identify species

citation form

Texting

1 7.5

The basic form of a word that a dictionary lists

bound form

Specialized

9.6

A small part added to a word that cannot stand alone, like -s in cats and -ed in walked

baking form

2.6

A pan that holds batter or dough while it bakes

form class

Specialized

6.9

A group of words that do the same job in grammar, like a noun or verb

form division

Archaic

9.9

An old artificial group that scientists used to sort plants

form genus Rhizoctinia

Specialized

9.9

A group name for fungi seen only in their non-sexual stage, often causing plant disease

free-form

5.3

A work that does not follow fixed rules or structure

major form class

Specialized

7.7

A main group of words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives that show a word's role in a sentence

plural form

Specialized

3.7

One translation used for different numbers, like one or many

Surface Forms

form singular

forms plural

Etymology

Form comes from the Latin forma 'shape', and a concrete form is a mould that gives wet concrete its 'shape' until it becomes hard, so it is literally the thing that makes the shape.