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:
“Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
““Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)