| 单词 | form |
| 释义 | form I. 1. obsolete 2. a. < the carefully graded form of the curves > b. < the dress displayed her form to advantage > c. archaic < he had no form or comeliness — Isa 53:2 (Revised Standard Version) > 3. a. b. in metaphysics (1) in Platonic philosophy (2) in Aristotelian or scholastic philosophy (3) in Baconian philosophy c. in Kantian philosophy 4. a. obsolete b. c. < the form of the marriage service in the prayer book > d. obsolete e. (1) < a form for a deed > < be sure to fill all blanks on your tax form > (2) 5. a. b. < the rigid form of the imperial court > : an act of conduct or mode of precedure prescribed (as by custom or a code of etiquette) < the complex forms and taboos of the savage > : formality, ceremony, conventionality < knew all the forms for wooing a proper young miss > c. < his behavior was often bad form > < such poor form is to be deplored > d. < he is a strong swimmer but weak on form > 6. a. b. < seated on a low form against the wall > c. d. 7. obsolete a. b. 8. a. b. < how to move forms from the galley to the stone > < wind the cord clockwise around the form > 9. a. < the diamond, graphite, and soot are allotropic forms of carbon > < the democratic form of government > < one form of respiratory disorder > < the form of vegetation typical of xerophytic areas > b. also for·ma < the discretiflorus form of the rush Juncus tenuis > also c. < the southern form of the hairy woodpecker > 10. a. < the sonnet is a poetical form > b. in logic (1) (2) (3) c. < form consists in a pattern of relationships that gives unity to a complex of perceptual elements — F.S.Haserot > — often contrasted with content d. e. (1) (2) 11. 12. a. < a form sheet > < a racing form > < form players > b. < preseason workouts to get in form for the regular season > often < a batter off his form at the plate > < a musician playing at the top of his form > 13. < a single crystal often exhibits faces of two or more crystal forms which supplement one another or truncate one another's edges or corners > 14. a. b. < obsolete, participial, or verbal forms > 15. mathematics 16. 17. 18. Synonyms: < there had been no fixed order for the coronation of an English king, and the form which was observed at Bath was reached only after … two experimental drafts — F.M.Stenton > < his inclinations toward the forms of the Church of England — G.H.Genzmer > < made his declaration in form — Jane Austen > Modified, as by good or bad, form indicates the degree of conformity to established usage or custom < it was accepted poetic good form that the lover, writing of his lady, should inventory her charms from top to toe — J.L.Lowes > < nothing could be worse form … than any display of temper in a public place — Edith Wharton > form may indicate a traditional or sanctioned procedure lacking force, significance, or real vitality < if congress remains at liberty to give this court appellate jurisdiction … the distribution of jurisdiction made in the Constitution is form without substance — John Marshall > formality applies either to a prescribed procedural detail, often one done perfunctorily and lacking in import, or to an attitude of punctilious, reserved stiffness < the first reading of a public bill is a formality and is in effect little more than information given to the House that the bill is on its way — R.M.Dawson > < the cold formality of the duchess's court > ceremony is likely to suggest dignified, impressive, elaborate, or punctilious performance of actions ranging from those of deep spiritual significance to little everyday courtesies or routine actions < the ceremonies at the investiture of a pope > < ceremonies in honor of the martyred king > < the beauty of an inherited courtesy of manners, of a thousand little ceremonies flowing out of the most ordinary relations and observances of life — Laurence Binyon > ceremonial, occasionally a synonym for ceremony, is more likely to suggest a system or code of prescribed ceremonies < the gorgeous ceremonial of the Burgundian court — W.H.Prescott > rite indicates the prescribed speech and action of a special formal occasion, especially a very significant or unusual one, an ordinary event treated as though of major importance, or an esoteric practice < had gone through this formality as resignedly as through all the others which made of a nineteenth century New York wedding a rite that seemed to belong to the dawn of history — Edith Wharton > < the semipagan rites peculiar to the burial of the dead in middle-class houses — Rudyard Kipling > < abhorred rites to Hecate in their obscured haunts — John Milton > ritual in its older sense indicates the totality of the rites of service or faith < the Roman ritual had always a great attraction for him — Oscar Wilde > More frequently today it designates any series of actions given an unusual importance and a prescribed order or manner < the ritual of asepsis today is the same the world over — Harvey Graham > < it was essential to reach a cave around the next headland where she would sit down facing the sea before she thought about anything — thus making a little ritual against despair — Audrey Barker > Where it is not an equivalent for ritual or rite, liturgy may indicate the prescribed form for an act or session of worship as written and accepted < he [Henry VIII] insisted on … the maintenance of full ritual in the liturgy — Hilaire Belloc > Synonyms: < appearing in book form > < the republican form of government > < a sense of interdependence and interrelated unity that gave form to intellectual stirrings that had been previously inchoate — John Dewey > < school architecture throughout the state is highly specialized. Rigid state laws for heating, ventilation, and lighting offer little opportunity for variation on standard form — American Guide Series: New Jersey > figure is likely to call attention to outlines, to bounding, enclosing circumference or outer lines < a geometrical figure > < the figures of a dance > < the cloud figures in the sky — Sylvia Berkman > < the president rose to his great height, a somber, towering figure in black — Sir Winston Churchill > shape may sometimes suggest both outline and also content, mass, body, bulk, or detail < hat shapes of beaver, coon, otter, and other skins — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < the construction of a play sets up its shape, and builds its skeleton — John Van Druten > < the shape of an idea emerged gradually out of the fog of words — Ellen Glasgow > < whole stone logs are found, some wonderfully and delicately colored, in the shape of the Asiatic gingko tree — American Guide Series: Washington > conformation is usable in reference to whole complicated structure or to detailed arrangement or presentation < they failed to find any relation between altitude tolerance and body stature or conformation — H.G.Armstrong > < a culture acquires its conformation and specificity from the uniqueness of its institutions — Abram Kardiner > configuration is applicable to a detailed outline or statement of the nature and disposition or arrangement of various parts < he used to wake up and not know where he was, but the configurations of a dream could easily have taken on such a shape as this — the dining room of the Marlborough in the shadowy light of early morning — Hamilton Basso > < though the main street is wide and lined with stores, most of the others fit crookedly into the configurations of the valley — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > Synonyms: < the forms of good conduct > < the forms of worship > < good form in swimming > < a form of address > usage implies the sanction of precedent or tradition, often designating a form preserved out of respect for a class, profession, or religion < descriptions of usages presuppose descriptions of uses, that is, ways or techniques of doing the thing the more or less widely prevailing practice of doing which constitutes the usage — Gilbert Ryle > < to bury in the first furrow certain fruits of a particular structure, such as figs, pomegranates, and locust beans, is a usage frequently observed — J.G.Frazer > convention, often interchangeable with form, especially in application to social behavior, stresses general agreement and therefore applies to some set way of doing or saying something that is sanctioned or believed to be sanctioned only by general unquestioning acceptance < this music followed conventions perfectly understood by the contemporaries — P.H.Lang > < certain parliamentary conventions which exist to supplement the rules of procedure — T.E.May > < this genius who was too wild and elemental ever to conform to any aesthetic convention — H.M.Ledig-Rowohlt > convenance, a literary term still retaining some of its character as a loanword, applies only to social conventions especially regarded as essential to propriety or decorum < disregarding the social convenances, continued to chatter on — R.H.Sampson > < the convenances of life — A.C.Benson > II. transitive verb 1. a. < man, formed of earth, to earth returns > < the skilled craftsman forms and finishes the rough stone to a thing of beauty > b. < asked to form a new cabinet — M.S.Stewart > < was called upon to form a government — Kenneth Lawson > 2. a. < form the paste into lozenges and roll them in sugar > < a state formed after the Roman republic > b. < 'tis education forms the common mind — Alexander Pope > 3. < form a habit > 4. < bonds formed the bulk of his estate > < her hat was formed of feathers > 5. a. b. 6. a. < forms the past tense in -ed > b. c. < form a clause or sentence > 7. < the battalion advanced as soon as its lines were formed > 8. intransitive verb 1. < a clot formed gradually over the cut > 2. < popular protest formed steadily > < thunderheads were forming over the hills > 3. < the infantry formed in columns > 4. of a hare Synonyms: see make • - form on |
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