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Forming - English meaning

fɔːm

Forming – definitions in English dictionary

verb

Bring together parts or combine to create (something).

Usage examples:

The company was formed in 1982

Synonims:

Set upDeviseEstablishFoundLaunchFloatCreateBring into beingPut in placeOrganizeInstituteStartBeginGet goingInitiateBring aboutInaugurateLay the foundations ofArrangeDraw up
verb

Make or be made into a specific shape or form.

Usage examples:

Form the dough into balls

Synonims:

MakeFashionShapeModelMouldForgeFoundCastSculptHewCarveConstructBuildManufactureFabricateAssemblePut togetherCreateProduceConcoctDeviseContriveFrame
noun

The visible shape or configuration of something.

Usage examples:

The form, colour, and texture of the tree
noun

A particular way in which a thing exists or appears.

Usage examples:

Essays in book form
noun

A type or variety of something.

Usage examples:

Sponsorship is a form of advertising
noun

The customary or correct method or procedure.

Usage examples:

An excessive concern for legal form and precedent
noun

A mould, frame, or block in or on which something is shaped.

noun

A printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted.

Usage examples:

An application form
noun

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

Usage examples:

The fifth form
noun

The state of a sports player or team with regard to their current standard of play.

Usage examples:

They are one of the best teams around on current form
noun

A long bench without a back.

Usage examples:

The shelter inside was totally dark and one had to grope to find a place to sit on the backless woo…
noun

A hare's lair.

Usage examples:

Hares lie overnight in ‘forms’, which are a kind of above-ground nest.
verb

Present participle of form

Usage examples:

A crowd formed around the accident., a solution began to form in her mind., i formed the impression…
verb

To begin to exist or to make something begin to exist

Usage examples:

A crowd formed around the accident., a solution began to form in her mind., form an impression i fo…
verb

To make something into a particular shape

Usage examples:

Form something into something she formed the clay into a small bowl.
verb

To make or be something

Usage examples:

The lorries formed a barricade across the road., together they would form the next government., thi…
verb

If separate things form, they come together to make a whole

Usage examples:

The children formed into lines.

Forming translation into English

Forming: translate from English into Chinese

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成型, 树立, 形成的

Forming: translate from English into Dutch

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Vormen, Buiging

Forming: translate from English into French

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Formant, Formation, Formage

Forming: translate from English into German

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Bildung, Gestaltung, Schließung

Forming: translate from English into Hindi

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गठन

Forming: translate from English into Italian

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Formando

Forming: translate from English into Korean

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형성, 편성, 연합군 부대

Forming: translate from English into Russian

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Формирование, Образование, Выстраивание, Составление

Forming: translate from English into Spanish

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Formando

Word origin

Middle English: from Old French forme (noun), fo(u)rmer (verb, from Latin formare ‘to form’), both based on Latin forma ‘a mould or form’.

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