Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object.
Form may also refer to the following:
- Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data
- Form (education), a class, set or group of students
- Form (exercise), a proper way of performing an exercise
- Form (horse racing), a record of a racehorse's performance, or similarly for an athlete
- Form (nest), a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
- Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice
- Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece
- Criminal record, slang
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Famous quotes containing the word form:
“‘A thing is called by a certain name because it instantiates a certain universal’ is obviously circular when particularized, but it looks imposing when left in this general form. And it looks imposing in this general form largely because of the inveterate philosophical habit of treating the shadows cast by words and sentences as if they were separately identifiable. Universals, like facts and propositions, are such shadows.”
—David Pears (b. 1921)
“I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)