| form | give a shape or form to; "shape the dough" | en |
| form | make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" | en |
| form | establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children" | en |
| form | A set of data entry fields on a page that are processed on the server The data is sent to the server when the user submits the form by clicking on a button or, in some cases, by clicking on an image | en |
| form | develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" | en |
| form | a life-size dummy used to display clothes | en |
| form | alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" | en |
| form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" | en |
| form | (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system" | en |
| form | a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" | en |
| form | In the context of the World Wide Web, part of a Web page which allows - indeed, requests - the user to give information by answering questions The answers may be given by typing text into a box, by clicking buttons to make a selection or by selecting an item from a menu The user then clicks a special button which sends the information to the server where the page resides, where it is processed | en |
| form | A set of data-entry fields on a page that are processed on a server The data is sent to the server when a user submits the form by clicking on a button or, in some cases, by clicking an image | en |
| form | Web forms permit a user to return information to a web server for some action The forms are handled by a CGI program For example, the mailform form offers spaces for you to enter the subject and content of the message, and the CGI processing consists of mailing the message | en |
| form | A web form is like a conventional form that needs to be filled in and then sent off or 'submitted' Some web sites use them for gathering market research type information - they are ideal for gathering short responses Some On-line Learning sites also use forms Questions may be presented as multiple choice questions or offer users areas where they are expected to type their answers to provide feedback As with e-mail, forms are not the best environment for writing anything which requires a lot of thought and care When completed a form is transmitted back to the host server (for instance a University's Internet computer) by the user pressing a Submit button | en |
| form | n 1 any object meant to be evaluated 2 a symbol, a compound form, or a self-evaluating object 3 (for an operator, as in "<<operator>> form") a compound form having that operator as its first element {"A quote form is a constant form "} | en |
| form | A web page that has input fields for a user to submit information Frames: A feature that divides a Web page into separate windows, each of which can be scrolled independently of the others Many search engines can't index framed sites FreeBSD: An operating system, which is a version of UNIX FreeBSD runs on Intel microprocessors, and powers the servers of the Web's largest sites | en |
| form | A group of elements (enclosed by a FORM element) in an HTML document, which generate graphical controls such as text entry boxes, radio buttons, and check boxes when the document is displayed in a browser The user can enter information in a form and use the browser to submit it to a program on a Web server | en |
| form | A set of data-entry fields on a page that are processed on a Web server The data is sent to the server when a site visitor submits the form by clicking on a button or, in some cases, by clicking a graphic | en |
| form | In Web publishing, a Web page or portion of a Web page that is filled out by the user and sent back to the server for processing | en |
| form | A set of form fields on a web page whose information is processed by a web server The information on a form is sent to a server when the user submits the form by clicking a button or image | en |
| form | Z-folded pin-fed paper is called "continuous form " May also refer to printed documents like tax forms Special software is available to create and fill in forms Internet browsers use the term to describe an area of the screen where responses are entered (user name and ID, for example) | en |
| form | any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke" | en |
| form | The arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc In other words, the "way-it-is-said " Sidelight: Form provides a "pattern" for the poem, but is usually most effective when it is the least obvious Sidelight: The form of a poem which follows a set pattern of rhyme scheme, stanza form and refrain (if there is one), is called a fixed form, examples of which include: ballade, limerick, pantoum, rondeau, sestina, sonnet, triolet and villanelle (Compare Diction, Motif, Persona, Style, Texture, Tone) | en |
| form | You can refer to something that you can see as a form if you cannot see it clearly, or if its outline is the clearest or most striking aspect of it. She thought she'd never been so glad to see his bulky form | en |
| form | If something is arranged or changed so that it becomes similar to a thing with a particular structure or function, you can say that it forms that thing. These panels folded up to form a screen some five feet tall | en |
| form | If something consists of particular things, people, or features, you can say that they form that thing. Cereals form the staple diet of an enormous number of people around the world | en |
| form | When a particular shape forms or is formed, people or things move or are arranged so that this shape is made. A queue forms outside Peter's study They formed a circle and sang `Auld Lang Syne' The General gave orders for the cadets to form into lines | en |
| form | When something can exist or happen in several possible ways, you can use form to refer to one particular way in which it exists or happens. Valleys often take the form of deep canyons They received a benefit in the form of a tax reduction | en |
| form | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" | en |
| form | A form of something is a type or kind of it. He contracted a rare form of cancer Doctors are willing to take some form of industrial action I am against hunting in any form | en |
| form | A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc | en |
| form | The form of something is its shape. the form of the body | en |
| form | When something takes form, it develops or begins to be visible. As plans took form in her mind, she realized the need for an accomplice The face of Mrs Lisbon took form in the dimness | en |
| form | If you say that someone is off form, you think they are not performing as well as they usually do. = below par | en |
| form | If you say that someone is on form, you think that they are performing their usual activity very well. Robert Redford is back on form in his new movie `Sneakers' | en |
| form | as, valiform; oviform | en |
| form | If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite. It was thought bad form to discuss business on social occasions | en |
| form | If someone or something behaves true to form, they do what is expected and is typical of them. My luck was running true to form True to form, she kept her guests waiting for more than 90 minutes. In the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle the active, determining principle of a thing. The term was traditionally used to translate Plato's eidos, by which he meant the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is, in contrast to the particulars that are finite and subject to change. Each form is the pattern of a particular category of thing in the world; thus, there are forms of human, stone, shape, colour, beauty, and justice.Whereas the physical world, perceived with the senses, is in constant flux and knowledge derived from it restricted and variable, the realm of forms, apprehensible only by the mind, is eternal and changeless. Particular things derive what reality they have by "participating" in, or imperfectly copying, the forms. Aristotle rejected the abstract Platonic notion of form and argued that every sensible object consists of both matter and form, neither of which can exist without the other. For Aristotle, the matter of a thing consists of those of its elements which, when the thing has come into being, may be said to have "become" it; the form of a thing is the arrangement or organization through which such elements have become the thing in question. Thus a certain lump of bronze is the matter that, given a certain form, becomes a statue or, given another, becomes a sword. The Aristotelian concept of form was adapted and developed by St. Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic philosophers. The Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant used the notion of form to describe the mentally imposed conditions of sensible experience, namely space and time | en |
| form | If you form an organization, group, or company, you start it. They tried to form a study group on human rights They formed themselves into teams | en |
| form | A form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. Forms usually ask you to give details about yourself, for example when you are applying for a job or joining an organization. You will be asked to fill in a form with details of your birth and occupation. application forms. see also sixth form | en |
| form | If you say that someone is in good form, you mean that they seem healthy and cheerful | en |
| form | A group of elements (enclosed by a FORM element) in an HTML document, which generate graphical controls such as text boxes, radio buttons, and check boxes when the document is displayed in a browser The user can enter information in a form and use the browser to submit it to a program on a Web server | en |
| form | A set of data-entry fields on a page that are processed on a Web server The data is converted to plain html format and forwarded to the recipient | en |
| form | If you say that something forms a person's character or personality, you mean that it has a strong influence on them and causes them to develop in a particular way. Anger at injustice formed his character. = mould | en |
| form | Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow | en |
| form | 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 | en |
| form | It is not necessarily a closed solid | en |
| form | The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol | en |
| form | The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms | en |
| form | The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant | en |
| form | 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 | en |
| form | 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 | en |
| form | See Form, n | en |
| form | To provide with a form, as a hare | en |
| form | 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 | en |
| form | To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes | en |
| form | In painting, more generally, the human body | en |
| form | to train | en |
| form | To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion | en |
| form | Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc | en |
| form | system; as, a republican form of government | en |
| form | Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer | en |
| form | The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance | en |
| form | An order of doing things, as in religious ritual | en |
| form | A blank document or template to be filled in by the user | en |
| form | To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column | en |
| form | Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form | en |
| form | Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty | en |
| form | The seat or bed of a hare | en |
| form | The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase | en |
| form | A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society | en |
| form | That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model | en |
| form | A shape; an image; a phantom | en |
| form | The boundary line of a material object | en |
| form | An HTML page which passes variables back to the server These pages are used to gather information from users Also referred to as scripts | en |
| form | shape, fashion, create; design; constitute; arrange; take shape; be created, be shaped fiil | en |
| form | An HTML document which presents the user with a series of interactive inputs | en |
| form | A web page feature that allows you to fill something in is called a form Your web developer can design a form that will allow people viewing your web pages to provide proscribed data They can see the blank spaces and fill them in right on their screens Forms can easily deliver data as formatted e-mail In a significantly more complex and costly scenario they can also deliver data into a database at the server Online databases are not cheap or simple | en |
| form | (1) A document with a fixed arrangement of captioned spaces designed for entering and extracting prescribed information Categories of forms include internal, interagency, public use, standard, and optional | en |
| form | The arrangement of the general structure of a work of art | en |
| form | The overall structural organization of a music composition (e g AB, ABA, Call and Response, Rondo, Theme and Variations, Sonata-allegro, etc) and the interrelationships of music events within the overall structure | en |
| form | The 'syntax' of a tense tec Form refers to the auxiliary verb used, the form of the main verb(inifinitive, participle, etc) and other grammatical information unrelated to meaning | en |
| form | The overall structural organization of a music composition (e g , AB, ABA, call and response, rondo, theme and variations, sonata-allegro) and the interrelationships of music events within the overall structure | en |
| form | When something natural forms or is formed, it begins to exist and develop. The stars must have formed 10 to 15 billion years ago Huge ice sheets were formed | en |
| form | shape; image; framework, mold; format; document with blank spaces to be filled in; fitness; mood; type; grade, class (British); custom, social standards; order; format; area of a hypertext document that includes options for receiving user input (Computers, Internet) isim | en |
| form | If you form a relationship, a habit, or an idea, or if it forms, it begins to exist and develop. This should help him form lasting relationships An idea formed in his mind | en |
| form | In sport, form refers to the ability or success of a person or animal over a period of time. His form this season has been brilliant | en |
| form | HTML element that allows users to fill in information and submit it for processing | en |
| form | A web page or part of a web page for a user to fill out The contents (data) of the form are then sent by the browser (client) to the server and on to a CGI program for processing | en |
| form | develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape | en |
| form | a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation" the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night" a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form" an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" give shape to; "form the clay into a head" create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape | en |
| form | a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" | en |
| form | an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night" | en |
| form | the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" | en |
| form | a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation" | en |
| form | To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide | en |
| form | This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are 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 | en |
| form | a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" | en |
| form | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" | en |
| form | create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" | en |
| form | to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" | en |
| form | give shape to; "form the clay into a head" | en |
| form | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" | en |
| form | a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form" | en |
| form | an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" | en |
| form | To run to a form, as a hare | en |
