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/fɔɹm/ verb B1- To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). · When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
- To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. · Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
- To take shape. · When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble. · The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.· Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
- To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. · By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
- To constitute, to compose, to make up. · Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline. · Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.· 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 'Tis education forms the common mind.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
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Your son has probably neglected some prescribed form or attention in registering his cargo, and it is more than probable he will be set at liberty directly he has given the information required, whether touching the health of his crew, or the value of his freight.”
Meantime the subject of the arrest was being canvassed in every different form.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
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