to take form
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3.5
- phrasal verb
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tomar forma
- After weeks of brainstorming, our project idea finally took form and became clearer.
- ideas take form
The causal level has sacred geometric blueprints of how everything will take form at the later levels.
- The causal level has sacred geometric blueprints of how everything will take form at the later levels.
- For when you awaken, the simulation transforms, the false falls away, and the real takes form.
- Shaping and sculpting the face is literally so fun because you get to see the face take form.
- I would tell you that as reading it, I can already see where the defense is taking form.
- OK, so we've got this idea of a delayed potential taking form.
- To bring something from this imaginary world that only one person has, to make it start and take form.
- The hint of gleaming tusks took form within his mind, yellowed eyes that shone with Glee fixed on his own.
- Like if you can't say it, it never takes form.
- Your consciousness continuously incarnated, which means took form as thought.
- But a thought is consciousness that has that has taken form.
- And there's the recognition that how did that form of struggle, suffering came to take form shape.
Examples
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The sculpture started to take form as the artist patiently shaped the clay.
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I came up with the genesis of that idea talking, but it really took form in writing.
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Developing a new software product is always exciting, especially to watch ideas take form and truly become a reality.
Blog text (25) -
And then this area here is kind of kind of taking form very slowly.
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A new circle of friends may have taken form by accident, or maybe it was meant to happen.
Blog text (6) -
And then, little by little, the colors blend, and something begins to take form.
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Other activities took form from the initiative of an emergent international student movement.
Academic text (1990) -
I think that duality exists within all of us and, occasionally, it can take form.
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But before these plans could take form, both conspirators were mysteriously poisoned.
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In the world of pretrial incarceration, this trend towards rationalizing criminal justice took form in the dominance of technologies of risk.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
604
4.0
To become known or start to exist, for example as an idea
451
1.0
To begin to exist or take shape
146
3.6
Start to seem or show a particular quality
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3.7
To start to form and become clear, for example an idea or plan
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3.9
To start to exist
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3.6
To begin to exist and become accepted by people
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to start to develop or become clear' is directly derivable from combining 'take' (to assume) with 'form' (shape/structure); the phrase literally means 'assume a form' or 'come into shape.' This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'tomar forma', French 'prendre forme'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Take form comes from the image of a sculptor shaping clay, where the clay seems to take a clear form as the shape appears. So it now means 'to start to develop or become clear'.