Bring together parts or combine to create (something)

• - the company was formed in 1982

Organize people or things into (a group or body)

• - peasants and miners were formed into a militia

Go to make up or constitute

• - the precepts that form the basis of the book

Gradually appear or develop

• - a thick mist was forming all around

Conceive (an idea or plan) in one's mind

Enter into or contract (a relationship)

• - the women would form supportive friendships

Articulate (a word, speech sound, or other linguistic unit)

Construct (a new word) by derivation or inflection

Make or fashion into a certain shape or form

• - form the dough into balls

Be made or fashioned into a certain shape or form

• - his strong features formed into a smile of pleasure

Have a specified shape

• - her body was slight and flawlessly formed

Shape or develop by training or discipline

Influence or shape (something abstract)

• - the role of the news media in forming public opinion

The visible shape or configuration of something

• - the form, color, and texture of the tree

Arrangement of parts; shape

• - the entities underlying physical form

The body or shape of a person or thing

• - his eyes scanned her slender form

Arrangement and style in literary or musical composition

• - these videos are a triumph of form over content

The essential nature of a species or thing, esp. (in Plato's thought) regarded as an abstract ideal that real things imitate or participate in

A mold, frame, or block in or on which something is shaped

A temporary structure for holding fresh concrete in shape while it sets

A particular way in which a thing exists or appears; a manifestation

• - her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercise

Any of the ways in which a word may be spelled, pronounced, or inflected

• - an adjectival rather than adverbial form

The structure of a word, phrase, sentence, or discourse

• - every distinction in meaning is associated with a distinction in form

A type or variety of something

• - sponsorship is a form of advertising

An artistic or literary genre

A taxonomic category that ranks below variety, which contains organisms differing from the typical kind in some trivial, frequently impermanent, character, e.g., a color variant

The customary or correct method or procedure; what is usually done

• - an excessive concern for legal form and precedent

A set order of words; a formula

A formality or item of mere ceremony

• - the outward forms of religion

A printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted

• - an application form

A class or year in a school, usually given a specifying number

• - the fifth form

The state of an athlete or sports team with regard to their current standard of performance

• - illness has affected his form

• - they've been in good form this season

Details of previous performances by a racehorse or greyhound

• - an interested bystander studying the form

A long bench without a back

A hare's lair