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Roget's Thesaurus

#240. Form

Nouns

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.

Verbs

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.

Adjectives

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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