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- English Word Form Definition A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
- English Word Form Definition The seat or bed of a hare.
- English Word Form Definition The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
- English Word Form Definition The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- English Word Form Definition The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
- English Word Form Definition The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- English Word Form Definition That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
- English Word Form Definition Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
- English Word Form Definition The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
- English Word Form Definition To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
- English Word Form Definition To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
- English Word Form Definition To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
- English Word Form Definition To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
- English Word Form Definition To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
- English Word Form Definition To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
- English Word Form Definition To run to a form, as a hare.
- English Word Formal Definition See Methylal.
- English Word Formal Definition Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
- English Word Formal Definition Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
- English Word Formal Definition Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
- English Word Formal Definition Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
- English Word Formal Definition Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
- English Word Formal Definition Dependent in form; conventional.
- English Word Formal Definition Sound; normal.
- English Word Formaldehyde Definition A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
- English Word Formalism Definition The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
- English Word Formalist Definition One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
- English Word Formalities Definition of Formality
- English Word Formality Definition The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
- English Word Formality Definition Form without substance.