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form verb (COME TOGETHER)
form verb (BEGIN HAVING)
form verb (BEGIN)
form noun (TYPE)
[ C ] us
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She has a mild form of the flu and should be OK in a few days.
form noun (SHAPE/APPEARANCE)
[ C ] us
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form noun (DOCUMENT)
[ C ] us
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form noun (ART/MUSIC)
[ C ] literature us/fɔrm/
[ C ] art, music us/fɔrm/
form noun (BEHAVIOR)
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the way in which someone does something:
(Definition of form from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of form
form
All membranous boundary structures in contemporary forms of life incorporate a lipid bilayer as the primary barrier to free diffusion of solutes.
In all cases, a suite of complex hydrocarbons was formed.
However, these chemical species can be formed by abiotic geochemical processes.
Thirdly, our approach equates the nominative and accusative forms.
In order to confirm this interpretation, we have per formed the same experiment using the second harmonic as a probe.
The second pinch is formed at 1.7 ms, when a current sheet collides with the reflected shock wave.
A local potential minimum will be formed near the sur face of the plasma.
In pulse 1588, the test was per formed in a clean environment.
In other words, we have considered the crystal as a mirror-like system; therefore only a geometrical study has been per formed.
Pairs of forms also serve to identify the remaining forms.
Further, as table 10 illustrates, a set of diagnostic forms also identifies the class of a verb.
The forms with an overt case affix require a nominal which is either genitive or dative, and have the peculiarity that they cannot be stacked.
Abstractive models are exemplarbased, and exhibit patterns by giving sets of actual forms that instantiate those patterns.
Upon electron beam- target interaction, an undesired target plasma is formed in the shape of a plume.
The present study was per formed in order to define the time structure of the seed pulse that will be fed into the power amplifier.
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Collocations with form
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Broadcasting directly to a personal pager again requires natural language, but in a far more abbreviated form to allow for a pager's limited message length.
Elementary pattern matching may therefore be recast in abstract form, with a semantics given by translation.
I'd love to create a form, an acceptable form, where people can sing and talk and it can be drama and music.
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