Found 4 items, similar to Forming.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: form bentuk
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: form angkuh, bentuk, bentukan, cetak, format, formulir, gaya, membentuk, sosok
English → English (WordNet) Definition: form form v 1: to compose or represent:“This wall forms the background of the stage setting”; “The branches made a roof”; “This makes a fine introduction” [syn: constitute, make] 2: create (as an entity); “social groups form everywhere”; “They formed a company” [syn: organize, organise] 3: develop into a distinctive entity; “our plans began to take shape” [syn: take form, take shape, spring] 4: give a shape or form to; “shape the dough” [syn: shape] 5: 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” [syn: shape, work, mold, mould, forge] 6: establish or impress firmly in the mind; “We imprint our ideas onto our children” [syn: imprint] 7: give shape to; “form the clay into a head” [ant: deform] form n 1: 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” [syn: word form , signifier, descriptor] 2: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; “sculpture is a form of art”; “what kinds of desserts are there?” [syn: kind, sort, variety] 3: 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” [syn: shape, pattern] 4: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); “he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke” [syn: shape, configuration, contour, conformation] 5: 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” [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, flesh] 6: the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; “geometry is the mathematical science of shape” [syn: shape] 7: the visual appearance of something or someone; “the delicate cast of his features” [syn: shape, cast] 8: (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” [syn: phase] 9: a printed document with spaces in which to write; “he filled out his tax form” 10: (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; “a new strain of microorganisms” [syn: variant, strain, var.] 11: 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” 12: a particular mode in which something is manifested; “his resentment took the form of extreme hostility” 13: a body of students who are taught together; “early morning classes are always sleepy” [syn: class, grade] 14: an ability to perform well; “he was at the top of his form”; “the team was off form last night” 15: a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin] 16: a mold for setting concrete; “they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Forming Forming \Form"ing\, n. The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers. [1913 Webster] Form \Form\ (f[^o]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Formed (f[^o]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Forming.] [F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See Form, n.] 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. [1913 Webster] God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii. 7. [1913 Webster] The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. [1913 Webster] The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. [1913 Webster] 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. [1913 Webster] 6. (Elec.) 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. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]