Some articles on formed:
... Japanese also contains a large number of mimetic words formed by reduplication of a syllable ... By one count, approximately 43% of Japanese mimetic words are formed by full reduplication, and many others are formed by partial reduplication, as in がささ〜 ga-sa-sa- (rustling) – compare English ...
... Formed on December 21, 1816, Pike County was the first county formed after Indiana became a state ... It was formed from Gibson and Perry counties, and was named for Zebulon Pike, famous for his Pike Expedition of 1806 - 1807, exploring the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase ...
... the eroded remnants of two large stratovolcanoes (Lyttelton formed first, then Akaroa) ... These formed through intraplate volcanism through continental crust between approximately eleven and eight million years ago (Miocene) ... The peninsula formed as offshore islands, with the volcanoes reaching to about 1,500 m above sea level ...
... Belle Ewart was formed in 1854 ... Henry's Corners, now Thornton, was formed in 1833 ... Perry's Corners, now Cookstown, was formed around 1859 ...
... two large masses, Gondwana and Laurasia, were formed ... The re-formed Gondwanan continent was not precisely the same as that which existed before Pangaea formed for example, most of Florida and southern Georgia and Alabama ...
More definitions of "formed":
- (adj): Formed in the mind.
Synonyms: conceived
- (adj): Having or given a form or shape.
- (adj): Having taken on a definite arrangement.
Example: "Cheerleaders were formed into letters"; "we saw troops formed into columns"
Famous quotes containing the word formed:
“Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.”
—Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)
“In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends—an attainment conditioned in this way by universality—there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Continuing to live that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries
Is nearly always losing, or going without.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)