English Dictionary

form

/fɔːm/

verb

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). / (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. / (intransitive) To take shape.

I need to form a new team for the project.

意味（1）

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

意味（2）

(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To take shape.

When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

意味（4）

To put together or bring into being; assemble.

The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.

意味（5）

(transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

By adding -ness, you can form a noun from an adjective.

意味（6）

(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.

Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

意味（7）

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

意味（8）

To provide (a hare) with a form.

The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.

意味（9）

(electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.