form

Roget category 240

2. Words relating to space
› 2.3. Form
›› 2.3.1. General form

#240. Form

noun

form, figure, shape — conformation, configuration — make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib — stamp, type, cast, mold — fashion — contour etc. (outline) 230 — structure etc. 329 — plasmature^†.
feature, lineament, turn — phase etc. (aspect) 448 — posture, attitude, pose.
[Science of form] morphism.
[Similarity of form] isomorphism.
forming etc. v. — formation, figuration, efformation^† — sculpture — plasmation^†.

verb

form, shape, figure, fashion, efform^†, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast — rough hew, rough cast — sketch — block out, hammer out — trim — lick into shape, put into shape — model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture — cast, stamp — build etc. (construct) 161.

adjective

formed etc. v.. [Receiving form] plastic, fictile^† — formative — fluid.
[Giving form] plasmic^†.
[Similar in form] isomorphous.
[taking several forms] pleomorphic — protean — changeable, etc. 149.

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