EGAVE

form

About 272.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun To do with shape. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. 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. (Can we add an example for this sense?) A long bench with no back. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
  2. noun The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
  3. noun A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
  4. noun Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. noun A long bench with no back.
  8. noun The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

Similar words

take form take shape configuration build frame pattern organize shape sort make

Often followed by

of a the and in is or an to

Word family

formabilities formability formable formed forming forms on form true to form

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