form [ fɔ:m] n.形式；形状 vt.形成
form [fɔ:m] n. 表格;形式;结构
form [fɔ:m] 表格
formed a.成形
形成全方位、多层次、宽领域的开放格局 form an all-directional, multi-layered and wide-ranging opening pattern
WFM Wave Form Monitor 波形监视器
Formed plywood 模压（成型）胶合板
Bentwood forming machinery曲木成型机
Roll Forming Machine 卷帘
Would you please fill in the depositing form, giving the sum of money you're to deposit as well as your name, address and professional unit?
请填张存款单，写明要存的数额以及你的姓名，地址和工作的单位，好吗？
a deposit form 存款单
Fill our a withdrawal form, please.
请填写取款单。
a withdrawal form 取款单
Would you kindly sign the exchange form, giving your name and address?
请在兑换单上签字，写出你的姓名和地址，好吗？
an exchange form 兑换单
take notes in outline form 记大纲式的笔记
"Arrival/Departure record"(Form I-94) （表I-94，入境－出境记录）：移民归化局文件，
在美国入境地点签发，作为外国国民合法进入美国的证明。表上明确注明证件持有者许可在美逗留的期限，
或是确定一个固定的"截止日期"（expiration date），或是注上"D/S"字样。
"D/S"意为"身份有效期"（duration of status），允许证件持有者在美国逗留到达成业经批准的目的为止。
Form I-20 ID Copy（表I-20 ID印件）：签发给持有F-1和M-1非移民签证者，他们或是在
入境地点领取，或是在美国境内获得这种身份时领取，用以记录与F-1或M-1学生非移民身
份有关的一切事项。对持F-1非移民签证的学生，表I-20 ID印件可纳入表I-20 A-B，成为
它的一个部分。对持M-1非移民签证的学生，表I-20 ID印件则可纳入表I-20 M-N，成为它
的一个部分。
Form I-94（表I-94）：即"Arrival/Departure Record"（入境－出境记录）。
Form I-538（表I-538）：持有F-1或M-1非移民签证者，要求延长在美国逗留期限、申请
部分时间就业、从事实习或转换学校时，需要填写的申请表。
Form IAP-66（表IAP-66）：由授权组织交流学者在美国活动的学校、单位、代理机构或基
金会签发给安排在美国从事某项特定教育或文化项目的学生的表格。必须先得到这一表格才
能申请进入美国所需的J-1"交流学者"非移民签证。
Annual Leave Detail Form
年假资料表格
Annual Pension Claim Form
按年申领退休金／抚恤金表格
appraisal form
评核报告；考绩报告
declaration form
申报表
e-Form project [Electronic Submission of Forms project]
电子表格计划
Electronic Submission of Forms project [e-Form project]
电子表格计划
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] 《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 《消除一切形式种族歧视国际公约》
Meeting Point [merged with United Democrats of Hong Kong to form Democratic Party in 1994] 汇点〔一九九四年与香港民主同盟合并组成民主党〕
registration form 选民登记表格
specified form 指明表格；指明格式
Standard Form of Receipt for Donations 划一格式捐赠收据
Standard Form of Receipt for Donations to Individual Candidate on the Geographical Constituency List 捐赠地方选区个别名单候选人划一收据
Standard Form of Receipt for Donations to the Geographical Constituency List As a Whole 捐赠地方选区候选人名单的划一收据
United Democrats of Hong Kong [UDHK] [merged with Meeting Point to form Democratic Party in 1994] 香港民主同盟〔港同盟〕〔一九九四年与汇点合并组成民主党〕
Autoclave forming 热压罐成型
Deepdrawing forming 深拉成型
Dip forming 浸渍成型
Heat forming 热成型
On-site forming 现场发泡
application form 申请表
legal form 法律形式
registration form 登记表
reporting form 申报报表
statement form 报表表式
奥克托齿形
octoid form
Of all artificial relations formed between mankind, the most capricious and variable is that of author and reader.
在人与人之间形成的所有人为关系中，最变化无常的是作者与读者的关系。
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
成功似乎是形成自信与自负区别的东西。
prejudice — a device enabling you to form opinions without getting the facts 偏见——使你能在不了解事实的情况下形成观点的一种装置。
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
我把自己这点知识归因于不耻于提问，归因于常常与各种各样的人谈论那些造成了他们各自专业与行当的主题。
In an acquisitive society the form that selfishness predominantly takes is monetary greed.
在一个贪婪的社会里，贪财是自私自利的突出表现形式。
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
通货膨胀就是那种无须立法便可实施的征税方式。
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
任何形式的瘾都是不好的，无论上瘾的是酒精、吗啡还是唯心主义。
All life is essentially the contributions that come form compromise.
整个人生基本上是妥协的结果。
After the general election, a combination of parties formed the new government.
大选后,各政党联合组成了新政府。
The two major political parties have combined to form a government.
两个主要政党已经联合起来组成了政府。
He found it hard to form an original opinion.
他觉得要有独到的见解并非易事。
I know them both well enough to form my own judgment.
我对他们都非常了解，足可以自己独立判断。
A plan began to form in his mind.
一个计划开始在他脑子里形成。
One of the most important tasks for a school is to help and promote forming a child's personality.
学校的一个重要任务就是要帮助和促进儿童个性的形成。
Psychologists study the processes by which human personalities are formed, develop and change.
心理学家研究人类性格的形成、发展和改变的过程。
He recognized that he must have carried about the orchestral opening to the "Rhinegold", within yet he had never been able to put it into form.
他意识到，这是久存于心中却始终未能谱写的《莱茵河的黄金》管弦乐前奏曲。
Now that you understand the problem, you have to think about how to put it into form to make yourself understood.
既然你已理解了这个问题，现在要考虑的是以什么方式表达才能使别人听懂。
A family provides security and a form of protection for its members.
家庭为其成员提供安全与保护。
The lake forms part of the boundary between the two countries.
这湖成了两国的部分边界。
A fence forms the boundary between my garden and my neighbour's.
一道篱笆把我的花园与邻居的花园分隔了开来。
Please write down your permanent address in the form.
请在表上填写你的永久性地址。
To sign up for membership, please fill in the form.
要申请会员的话，请填表。
There is no harm in writing down your name on the form.
在表格里写下你的名字不会有什么坏处。
Prejudice can take subtler forms than this.
偏见可能表现得比这更隐晦。
We are meant to fill in a tax form and pay income tax every year.
每年我们都得填写税单并缴纳所得税。
The river forms the boundary between the two states.
这条河是两国的边界。
Many countries have a republican form of government.
许多国家设立共和政府。
The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
两党分歧依然很大，无法结成同盟。
It is reported that breast cancer kills more women than any other form of cancer.
据报道，死于乳腺癌的妇女比死于其他癌症的妇女多。
"I'm" is the contracted form of "I am".
I'm是I am的缩写形式。
The painter's ideas about form and colour evolved out of the work of an earlier artist.
这位画家对形状和色彩的见解源于早期一位艺术家的作品。
A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble.
火山熔岩表面似乎形成了一层硬壳。
There is something about music that distinguishes it from all other art forms.
音乐有其与其他艺术不同的东西。
Does electricity convert easily to other forms of power?
电能很容易地变成其他形式的能源吗？
An illustration of China's dynamism is that a new company is formed in Shanghai every 11 seconds.
一个能说明中国充满活力的例子是，在上海每11秒钟就有一家公司诞生。
This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while some justices have refused to find any legislative classification other than race to be constitutionally disfavored, most have been receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are “suspect” and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts.
这一学说把十四修正案的应用扩大到了其他方面，由于一些法官拒绝用宪法来给除种族外的东西来进行法定分类予以否定，许多人觉得这一论点可以接受；至少有一些非种族的歧视，特别是性别歧视被怀疑要受法庭的仔细审查。
The hydrologic cycle, a major topic in this science, is the complete cycle of phenomena through which water passes, beginning as atmospheric water vapor, passing into liquid and solid form as precipitation, thence along and into the ground surface, and finally again returning to the form of atmospheric water vapor by means of evaporation and transpiration.
水文地质循环是这一科学里面的一个重要课题，它是水的完全循环过程。这一过程从水蒸汽开始中，以降水量的形式成为液态或者固态水，这样就到了地表，最后又通过蒸发或者散发方式回到水蒸汽的状态。
A plan began to form in his head.
一项计划在他脑子中形成。
He determined to form a club.
他决心成立一个俱乐部。
In the early morning light we could just see the dark forms of the mountains.
在晨曦中，我们仅能看到群山的轮廓。
我不知道这张表怎么填。
I don't know how to fill out this form. *fill out“在空白处填写”。form是“填写用表”。
这张表怎么填?
How do I fill out this form?
您能帮我填一下这张表吗?
Can you help me with this form?
今天几号?
What's today's date?
Fill out the form. (请填这张表。)
What's today's date? (今天几号?)
It's the tenth. (今天10号。)
What date is it today?
What's the date?
What's the date today?
人不可貌相。
Don't judge a book by its cover. *谚语，直译“不要根据书皮来判断书的内容”。
He's so short. (他的个儿多矮呀。)
Listen, don't judge a book by its cover. He was the best basketball player in California last year. (喂!你可不能以貌取人，他是去年加利福尼亚最棒的篮球运动员。)
Never judge something by its looks.
Appearances are deceiving. (不能以貌取人。)
Don't form an opinion about something based on appearance alone. (人不可貌相。)
请排队!
Please line up! *用于人们不排队很混乱的时候。line up 表示“排”、“列队” 、“排队”。
Please make a line.
Please form a line.
我不知道怎么填这张表。
I don't know how to fill out this form. *fill out是固定搭配，表示“在空白处填写”。form是“表格用纸”。
How do I fill out this form?
Can you help me with this form? (您能帮我填一下这张表吗?)
May I have a customs declaration form, please?
请给一份海关申报表好吗？
Different articles require different forms of packing.
不同商品需要不同的包装。
It is a shame!
这是一句可以用在许多适当情况的口语 (Catch-all phrase)，是表示一种轻度的「遗憾」或「同情」(a form of sympathy or regret) 但没有「羞耻」的意思。
It is a shame that your car got stuck in the snow.（你的汽车陷在雪里，真糟糕。）
When I said, "I lost ten dollars from my pocket.",he replied, "It is a shame!"（当我说：「我从口袋里掉了十块钱」，他回答：「真遗憾？」)
至於 "What a shame"，其实与 "it is a shame" 意思相似，也有 "It is too bad" 的味道。例如：
What a shame that his son's behavior is so rude.（他儿子的粗鲁行为是令人遗憾的）
God defend me from my friends; form my enemy I can defend myself.
防友靠天，防敌靠己。
Unless we hear form you to the contrary...
除非我方收到你方相反的通知...
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
Charles Lamb, British essayist
按照我所能归纳的最好理论，人类是由两个截然不同的种族构成的，即借方与出借方。
英国散文家兰姆,C.
Happiness is a form of courage.
H.Jackson, British writer
幸福是勇气的一种形式。
英国作家杰克逊.H.
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. American thinker
美丽的体形胜过漂亮的脸蛋；美丽的行为胜过美丽的体形。
美国思想家爱默生.R.W
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the strenm of life.
ohann Wolfgang German poet
天才形成于平静中，性格来自于生活的激流。
德国诗人歌德.J.W.
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson, American president
人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。
美国总统杰斐逊.T.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Gegorge Bernard Shaw, British dramatist
暗杀是检查制度的极端形式。
英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson, American president
人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。
美国总统杰斐逊.T.
My object will be , if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys Ican scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold, American humorist
我的目标——如果可能的话——是造就信奉基督的孩子。
美国幽默家阿诺德.T.
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher
所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。
德国哲学家尼采F W
His ankles look puffy and they pit when he presses them with his finger.
他的足踝好像肿了，用手按，就有小坑痕。
pit = small dent form
句里的they和them都是指ankles
take notes in outline form 记大纲式的笔记
Documents in combined form are not acceptable
不接受联合单据
Bills of lading made out in negotiable form
作成可议付形式的提单
Now we look forward to replying to our offer in the form of counter-offer.
现在我们希望你们能以还盘的形式对我方报盘予以答复。
The extent of insurance is stipulated in the basic policy form and in the various risk clause.
保险的范围写在基本保险单和各种险别的条款里。
Please fill in the application form.
请填写一下投保单。
表格 table; tabulation; form
Thanks is a short form of Thank you.
Thanks. 是Thank you.的简略形式。
My name is . . . is often used in introductions to tell someone else your name. You can also use a shorter form --- My name’s . . .
My name is . . .经常用于向别人介绍你自己。你也可以使用它的简略形式--- My name’s . . .
You can describe something using the superlative form of the simple adjective, e.g. It’s the oldest / It’s the oldest; It’s the best / It’s the best; It’s the biggest / It’s the biggest.
你可以用形容词的最高级来描述某事，例如It’s the oldest / 它是最古老的; It’s the best / 它是最好的; It’s the biggest / 它是最大的。
To ask for someone to sign something, e.g. a credit card bill, or a hotel form, you ask: Can you sign here? / Can you sign here?
要请某人签名，例如在刷卡帐单上或者在饭店入住表上签名，你可以问：Can you sign here? / 你能在这里签名吗?
捌 [bā] /complicated form of the numeral eight/split/
佰 [bǎi] /(complicated form of) hundred (used to avoid fraud)/
报表 [bào biǎo] /forms for reporting statistics/report forms/
报单 [bào dān] /taxation form/declaration form/
笔头 [bǐ tóu] /ability to write/writing skill/written/in written form/
编队 [biān duì] /form into columns/organize into teams/formation (of ships or aircraft)/
变文 [biàn wén] /a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)/
变相 [biàn xiàng] /in disguised form/covert/
表册 [biǎo cè] /statistical form/book of tables or forms/
表格 [biǎo gé] /form/table/
伯 [bó] /father's elder brother/senior/paternal elder uncle/eldest of brothers/respectful form of address/
伯父 [bó fù] /father's elder brother/(polite form of address for a man who is about the age of one's father)/
伯母 [bó mǔ] /wife of father's elder brother/aunt/(polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)/
呈 [chéng] /to assume (a form)/to submit/to petition/to show/to present/to offer/
程式 [chéng shì] /form/pattern/formula/program/
单 [dān] /bill/list/form/single/only/sole/
多细胞生物 [duō xì bāo shēng wù] /multicellular life form/
夫子 [fū zǐ] /pedant/(old form of address)/
格式 [gé shì] /form/specification/format/
构 [gòu] /Broussonetia papyrifera/to construct/to form/to make up/to compose/
构成 [gòu chéng] /to constitute/to form/to compose/to make up/
角蛋白 [jiǎo dàn bái] /keratin (protein forming nails and feathers, etc.)/
结成 [jié chéng] /form/forge (alliances, etc)/
聚 [jù] /form gathering/gather/
老兄 [lǎo xiōng] /'old chap' (form of address between male friends)/
臬氧 [niè yǎng] /ozone (ǒ)/erroneous form of 臭氧/
申请 [shēn qǐng] /apply (for)/application (form, etc.)/
式 [shì] /type/form/pattern/style/
体 [tǐ] /body/form/style/system/
填写 [tián xiě] /(v) fill or write in a blank spot on a form/
象 [xiàng] /shape/form/appearance/to be like/to resemble/to take after/to seem/elephant/image under a map (math.)/
形 [xíng] /to appear/to look/form/shape/
形成 [xíng chéng] /to form/to take shape/
形式 [xíng shì] /form/shape/situation/circumstance/
形态 [xíng tài] /shape/form/pattern/
形像 [xíng xiàng] /form/image/
形象 [xíng xiàng] /image/form/figure/
形影不离 [xíng yǐng bù lí] /inseparable (as form and shadow)/
形状 [xíng zhuàng] /form/shape/
亚伯 [yà bó] /Abe (short form for Abraham)/
养成 [yǎng chéng] /form/acquire/cultivate/
壹 [yī] /one (alternate form of 一)/
有孔虫 [yǒu kǒng chóng] /foramanifera (a form of plankton)/
怎么着 [zěn me zhe ] /(pron) what/(idiom) "whatever", used to replace some verbs in a sentence to form a more general sentence/
着 [zhe ] /-ing part. (indicates an action in progress)/part. coverb-forming after some verbs/
组 [zǔ] /to form/compose/make up/group/to organize/cord/
尊称 [zūn chēng] /(n) deferential or respectful form of address to sb/
If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line.
他们认为，如果铁路公司向所有客户收取同样的普通价格的话，那么，可以使用公路运输或其他交通工具的客户将会转移，使剩下的客户来承担铁路正常运作的开销。
This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new form of expression.
未来派诗人声称，这种加速的生活节奏需要一种新的表达形式。
We must speed up our literature too, if we want to interpret modern stress.
如果我们想诠释现代生活的压力，就必须加快文学发展的步伐。
We must pour out a large stream of essential words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, of finite verbs.
我们必须大量使用基本词汇，摆脱句号，修饰性形容词及限定动词的羁绊。
Three sun-belt states — Florida, Texas and California — together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier.
佛罗里达、得克萨斯和加利福尼亚这三个阳光充沛的地区，1980年的人口比前10年增加了近1000万。
Among large cities, San Diego moved from 14th to 8th and San Antonio form 15th to 10th — with Cleveland and Washington DC dropping out of the top 10.
在大城市排行榜上，圣地亚哥从第14位上升到第8位，圣安东尼奥从第15位升到第10位，而克利夫兰和华盛顿特区却被挤出了前10位。
By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations.
学校里最糟糕的竞争形式就是不恰当的强调考试。
{adj: Demotic} of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
{adj: H-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter H
{adj: L-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter L
{adj: T-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter T
{adj: U-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter U
{adj: W-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter W
{adj: Y-shaped} shaped in the form of the letter Y
{adj: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial} having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
"aboriginal forests"
"primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"
"the forest primeval"
"primordial matter"
"primordial forms of life"
{adj: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary, subsidiary} furnishing added support
"an ancillary pump"
"an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"
"The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"
{adj: accidental, adventitious} associated by chance and not an integral part
"poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson
"they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
{adj: accusatorial} specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor
<-> inquisitorial
{adj: acervate} pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass
"acervate fungous sporophores"
{adj: acid-forming} yielding an acid in aqueous solution
{adj: actinoid} having a radial form
"starfish are actinoid--that is, they are radially symmetrical"
{adj: addicted} compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
"she is addicted to chocolate"
"addicted to cocaine"
<-> unaddicted
{adj: addictive, habit-forming} causing or characterized by addiction
"addictive drugs"
"addictive behavior"
<-> nonaddictive
{adj: adjunctive} joining; forming an adjunct
{adj: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal} characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle
"aerial fancies"
"an airy apparition"
"physical rather than ethereal forms"
{adj: aeriform, airlike} resembling air or having the form of air
{adj: aerosolized, aerosolised} in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas
{adj: agglutinative, polysynthetic} forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning
{adj: aggregate} formed of separate units in a cluster
"raspberries are aggregate fruits"
{adj: allochthonous} of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed
<-> autochthonous
{adj: altered} changed in form or character without becoming something else
"the altered policy promised success"
"following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"
"he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens
<-> unaltered
{adj: amorphous, formless, shapeless} having no definite form or distinct shape
"amorphous clouds of insects"
"an aggregate of formless particles"
"a shapeless mass of protoplasm"
{adj: amorphous, uncrystallized, uncrystallised} without real or apparent crystalline form
"an amorphous mineral"
"amorphous structure"
{adj: amphibiotic, semiaquatic} having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form
{adj: anastigmatic, stigmatic} pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
{adj: angled} forming or set at an angle
"angled parking"
{adj: anomalous} deviating from the general or common order or type
"advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
{adj: aphaeretic, apheretic} relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis
{adj: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped} resembling a tree in form and branching structure
"arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"
"dendriform sponges"
{adj: arborical, arboreal, arborary, arborous} of or relating to or formed by trees
"an arborous roof"
{adj: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed} forming or resembling an arch
"an arched ceiling"
{adj: archaic, primitive} little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
"archaic forms of life"
"primitive mammals"
"the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
{adj: arched} constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches
"an arched passageway"
{adj: archeozoic, archaeozoic} formed in the earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era
"archeozoic life forms"
{adj: assembled, built, made-up} formed by fitting or joining components together
{adj: assisted, aided} having help; often used as a combining form
<-> unassisted
{adj: autochthonous} of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed
<-> allochthonous
{adj: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped} formed like a bacillus
{adj: basal, base} serving as or forming a base
"the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
{adj: base-forming} yielding a base in aqueous solution
{adj: based} having a base of operations (often used as a combining form)
"a locally based business"
"an Atlanta-based company"
"carrier-based planes"
{adj: basic, canonic, canonical} reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
"a basic story line"
"a canonical syllable pattern"
{adj: batwing} formed or shaped like a bat's wing
"a dress with batwing sleeves"
{adj: beaten} formed or made thin by hammering
"beaten gold"
{adj: biform} having or combining two forms
"a biform crystal"
"the biform body of a mermaid"
{adj: bimetal, bimetallic} formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together
{adj: blown} (of glass) formed by forcing air into a molten ball
"blown glass"
{adj: blurred, clouded} unclear in form or expression
"the blurred aims of the group"
"sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells
{adj: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate} possessing or existing in bodily form
"what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare
"an incarnate spirit"
"`corporate' is an archaic term"
{adj: botryoid, botryoidal, boytrose} resembling a cluster of grapes in form
{adj: bound, destined} headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
"children bound for school"
"a flight destined for New York"
{adj: bound} secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
"bound volumes"
"leather-bound volumes"
<-> unbound
{adj: built, stacked, well-stacked} well or attractively formed with respect to physique
{adj: carpellary} belonging to or forming or containing carpels
{adj: carved, carven} made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary)
"the carved fretwork"
"an intricately carved door"
"stood as if carven from stone"
<-> uncarved
{adj: cast} (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold
{adj: catenulate, chainlike} having a chainlike form
"catenulate bacterial cell colonies"
{adj: changed} made or become different in nature or form
"changed attitudes"
"changed styles of dress"
"a greatly changed country after the war"
<-> unchanged
{adj: chilly} not characterized by emotion
"a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
{adj: circular-knit} knitted in tubular form
"circular-knit sweaters without seams"
{adj: classical} of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance before modern times
<-> nonclassical
{adj: clawed} having a claw or claws; often used as a combining form
"sharp-clawed"
{adj: closed-chain, closed-ring} having atoms linked by bonds represented in circular or triangular form
{adj: cloudy, nebulose, nebulous} lacking definite form or limits
"gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore
"nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
{adj: club-shaped} shaped in the form of a club that is larger at one end
{adj: club-shaped} shaped in the form of the club on playing cards
{adj: collective} forming a whole or aggregate
<-> distributive
{adj: colonial, compound} composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
"coral is a colonial organism"
{adj: columned} having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form)
"a columned portico"
"trees with columned trunks"
"white-columned houses"
<-> noncolumned
{adj: columniform, columnar, columnlike} having the form of a column
"trees with columned trunks"
"columnar forms"
"a columnlike tree trunk"
{adj: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset} heavy and compact in form or stature
"a wrestler of compact build"
"he was tall and heavyset"
"stocky legs"
"a thick middle-aged man"
"a thickset young man"
{adj: compatible} capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
{adj: conceived, formed} formed in the mind
{adj: concluding, final, last, terminal} occurring at or forming an end or termination
"his concluding words came as a surprise"
"the final chapter"
"the last days of the dinosaurs"
"terminal leave"
{adj: conclusive} forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question
"conclusive proof"
"the evidence is conclusive"
<-> inconclusive
{adj: concrete} formed by the coalescence of particles
{adj: conjugate, conjugated} formed by the union of two compounds
"a conjugated protein"
{adj: consolidated} forming a solid mass
{adj: conventional, formal, schematic} represented in simplified or symbolic form
{adj: conventionalized, conventionalised, stylized, stylised} using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
"a stylized mode of theater production"
{adj: conventional} following accepted customs and proprieties
"conventional wisdom"
"she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
"conventional forms of address"
<-> unconventional, unconventional
{adj: convertible} designed to be changed from one use or form to another
"a convertible sofa"
"a convertible coupe"
{adj: corporate, incorporated} organized and maintained as a legal corporation
"a special agency set up in corporate form"
"an incorporated town"
{adj: corporeal, material} having material or physical form or substance
"that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
<-> incorporeal
{adj: covered} overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form
"women with covered faces"
"covered wagons"
"a covered balcony"
<-> bare
{adj: critical, decisive} forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
"a critical point in the campaign"
"the critical test"
{adj: crocketed} (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage)
"a crocketed spire"
{adj: cross-shaped} shaped in the form of a cross
{adj: crowning} forming or providing a crown or summit
"the crowning star on a Christmas tree"
"her hair was her crowning glory"
{adj: crystallized, crystalised} having both internal structure and external form of a crystal
"quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized"
{adj: crystallized, crystallised} having become fixed and definite in form
"distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion"- Psychological Abstracts
<-> uncrystallized
{adj: cyclic} botany; forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl
"cyclic petals"
"cyclic flowers"
<-> acyclic
{adj: cylindrical, cylindric} having the form of a cylinder
{adj: decussate, intersectant, intersecting} crossed or intersected in the form of an X
{adj: dedifferentiated} having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function
"the hebephrenic--the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients"
{adj: defined, formed, settled} clearly defined
"I have no formed opinion about the chances of success"
{adj: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen} so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
"deformed thalidomide babies"
"his poor distorted limbs"
"an ill-shapen vase"
"a limp caused by a malformed foot"
"misshapen old fingers"
{adj: democratic, popular} representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
"democratic art forms"
"a democratic or popular movement"
"popular thought"
"popular science"
"popular fiction"
{adj: derived} formed or developed from something else; not original
"the belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived"- John Dewey
<-> underived
{adj: die-cast} formed by forcing molten metal into a die
"a die-cast seal"
{adj: different} unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
"took different approaches to the problem"
"came to a different conclusion"
"different parts of the country"
"on different sides of the issue"
"this meeting was different from the earlier one"
<-> same
{adj: dimorphic, dimorphous} occurring or existing in two different forms
"dimorphic crystals"
"dimorphous organisms"
{adj: dissolved} (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form
"add the dissolved gelatin"
{adj: diversified} having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety
"a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern"
"diversified farming"
"diversified manufacturing"
"diversified scenery"
"diversified investments"
<-> undiversified
{adj: drum-shaped, drum-like} shaped in a form resembling a drum
{adj: dual} a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
"ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek"
{adj: durable, indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable} very long lasting
"less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"
"the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"
{adj: early} being or occurring at an early stage of development
"in an early stage"
"early forms of life"
"early man"
"an early computer"
<-> late
{adj: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic} (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"
"it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer
<-> nonechoic
{adj: eel-shaped} shaped in the form of an eel
{adj: ellipsoid, ellipsoidal, spheroidal, non-circular} in the form of an ellipse
{adj: elliptic} of a leaf shape; in the form of an ellipse
{adj: encircled, ringed, wreathed} adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms
"a brow encircled with laurel"
"wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"
"ringed round with daisies"
"smoke-wreathed"
{adj: endless} having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole
"an endless chain"
{adj: endogenic, endogenetic} of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth
"endogenic rocks are not clastic"
{adj: endothermic, endothermal, heat-absorbing} (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat
<-> exothermic
{adj: epistolary, epistolatory} written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
"an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"
"the epistolatory novel"
{adj: ergodic} positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions
{adj: evaporated} drawn off in the form of vapor
"evaporated molecules boil off"
{adj: excrescent} forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
{adj: exothermic, exothermal, heat-releasing} (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat
<-> endothermic
{adj: extrinsic} not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
"extrinsic evidence"
"an extrinsic feature of the new building"
"that style is something extrinsic to the subject"
"looking for extrinsic aid"
<-> intrinsic
{adj: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, invented, made-up} formed or conceived by the imagination
"a fabricated excuse for his absence"
"a fancied wrong"
"a fictional character"
"used fictitious names"
"a made-up story"
{adj: fan-shaped} shaped in the form of a fan
{adj: fastigiate} having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)
{adj: federal} characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities
"a federal system like that of the United States"
"federal governments often evolved out of confederations"
<-> unitary
{adj: fig-shaped} shaped in the form of a fig
{adj: figural, figurative} consisting of or forming human or animal figures
"a figural design"
"the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
{adj: filled} (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
"theirs was a house filled with laughter"
"a large hall filled with rows of desks"
"fog-filled air"
{adj: filmable} (used of a story or literary work) capable of being adapted to motion picture form
{adj: fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured} pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
"a fine-looking woman"
"a good-looking man"
"better-looking than her sister"
"very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray
"our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
{adj: finite} of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
<-> infinite
{adj: flaky, flakey} made of or easily forming flakes
{adj: flush} of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
"a door flush with the wall"
"the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
{adj: foliate} (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
"`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
{adj: foliolate} (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets
"`foliolate' is combined with the prefix `bi' to form the word `bifoliolate'"
{adj: foot-shaped} shaped in the form of a foot
{adj: football-shaped} shaped in the form of a football
{adj: form-only} being a matter of form only; lacking substance
"a form-only requirement that is usually ignored"
{adj: formalistic, formalized, formalised} concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
"highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'"
{adj: formal} (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
"the paper was written in formal English"
<-> informal
{adj: formal} being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
"pay one's formal respects"
"formal dress"
"a formal ball"
"the requirement was only formal and often ignored"
"a formal education"
<-> informal
{adj: formative, shaping, plastic} forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
"a formative influence"
"a formative experience"
{adj: formative} capable of forming new cells and tissues
"a formative zone in developing bone"
{adj: formed} fully developed as by discipline or training
"a fully formed literary style"
{adj: formed} having or given a form or shape
<-> unformed
{adj: formed} having taken on a definite arrangement
"cheerleaders were formed into letters"
"we saw troops formed into columns"
{adj: formless} having no physical form
"belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
{adj: friable} easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
"friable sandstone"
"friable carcinomatous tissue"
"friable curds formed in the stomach"
{adj: funnel-shaped} shaped in the form of a funnel
{adj: gamopetalous, sympetalous} having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel
{adj: generic} (of drugs) not protected by trademark
"`Acetaminophen' is the generic form of the proprietary drug `Tylenol'"
{adj: geometric, geometrical} characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration
"a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"
{adj: gestural, nonverbal} being other than verbal communication
"the study of gestural communication"
"art like gesture is a form of nonverbal expression"
{adj: graceful} characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
<-> awkward
{adj: grammatical, well-formed} conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers
"spoke in grammatical sentences"
<-> ungrammatical
{adj: granulated} made grainy or formed into granules
"granulated sugar"
{adj: graphic} of or relating to the graphic arts
"the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"- British Book News
{adj: gregarious} (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
"gregarious bird species"
<-> ungregarious
{adj: guitar-shaped} shaped in the form of a guitar
{adj: hammer-shaped} shaped in the form of a hammer
{adj: hardened, set} converted to solid form (as concrete)
{adj: harp-shaped} shaped in the form of a harp
{adj: headed} of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
"headed cabbages"
{adj: headless} not having a head or formed without a head
"the headless horseman"
"brads are headless nails"
<-> headed
{adj: hebephrenic, schizophrenic} suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior
{adj: heteroicous, polyoicous, polygamous} having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant
{adj: hieratic} written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing
"hieratic Egyptian script"
{adj: homogenized, homogenised} formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance
{adj: hook-shaped} shaped in the form of a hook
{adj: horn-shaped} shaped in the form of a horn
{adj: hourglass-shaped} shaped in the form of an hourglass
{adj: human} having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings
"human beings"
"the human body"
"human kindness"
"human frailty"
<-> nonhuman
{adj: hung} (usually followed by `with' or used in a combining form) having items suspended on or from a support
"walls hung with valuable paintings"
"a vine-hung trellis"
{adj: hyphenated} (of words) combined by means of a hyphen to form a unit
"hyphenated words"
"many feminists have chosen hyphenated names their children--today's so-called hyphenated babies"
"multiculturalism nurtures respect for hyphenated identities"
{adj: ideal} constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
"a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content"
{adj: igneous, eruptive} produced by the action of fire or intense heat
"rocks formed by igneous agents"
<-> aqueous
{adj: igneous, pyrogenic, pyrogenous} produced under conditions involving intense heat
"igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state; especially from molten magma"
"igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone"
"pyrogenic strata"
{adj: immutable, changeless} not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature
"the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God"
<-> mutable
{adj: incarnate} invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
"a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
{adj: incipient, inchoate} only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
"incipient civil disorder"
"an incipient tumor"
"a vague inchoate idea"
{adj: inclusive} including much or everything; and especially including stated limits
"an inclusive art form"
"an inclusive fee"
"his concept of history is modern and inclusive"
"from Monday to Friday inclusive"
<-> exclusive
{adj: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged, unified} formed or united into a whole
{adj: incorporeal, immaterial} without material form or substance
"an incorporeal spirit"
<-> corporeal
{adj: infinite, non-finite} of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)
"infinite verb form"
<-> finite
{adj: infinitival} relating to or formed with the infinitive
"infinitival clause"
{adj: inflected} showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)
"`boys' and `swam' are inflected English words"
"German is an inflected language"
<-> uninflected
{adj: inhuman} belonging to or resembling something nonhuman
"something dark and inhuman in form"
"a babel of inhuman noises"
{adj: inquisitorial} especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge
<-> accusatorial
{adj: institutional} organized as or forming an institution
"institutional religion"
<-> noninstitutional
{adj: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal} lacking material form or substance; unreal
"as insubstantial as a dream"
"an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
<-> substantial
{adj: integrated} formed into a whole or introduced into another entity
"a more closely integrated economic and political system"- Dwight D.Eisenhower
"an integrated Europe"
<-> nonintegrated
{adj: intensive} characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
"the questioning was intensive"
"intensive care"
"research-intensive"
"a labor-intensive industry"
{adj: intrinsic, intrinsical} belonging to a thing by its very nature
"form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey
<-> extrinsic
{adj: ionic} containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
"ionic charge"
"ionic crystals"
"ionic hydrogen"
<-> nonionic
{adj: isthmian} of or relating to or forming an isthmus
{adj: keel-shaped} shaped in the form of the keel of a boat
{adj: labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy} resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
"a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"
{adj: lancet-shaped} shaped in the form of a lancet
{adj: leavened} made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form
"leavened bread"
"well-leavened"
"yeast-leavened breads"
<-> unleavened
{adj: leptosporangiate} (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell
"leptosporangiate ferns"
<-> eusporangiate
{adj: liked} found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form
"a well-liked teacher"
<-> disliked
{adj: limbic} of or relating to or forming a limbus
{adj: lip-shaped} shaped in the form of a lip
{adj: localized, localised} confined or restricted to a particular location
"the localized infection formed a definite abscess"
{adj: looking, sounding} appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
"left their clothes dirty looking"
"a most disagreeable looking character"
"angry-looking"
"liquid-looking"
"severe-looking policemen on noble horses"
"fine-sounding phrases"
"taken in by high-sounding talk"
{adj: manifold, multiplex} many and varied; having many features or forms
"manifold reasons"
"our manifold failings"
"manifold intelligence"
"the multiplex opportunities in high technology"
{adj: mansard} (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper
"the story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret"
{adj: membranous, membrane-forming} characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane)
"membranous gastritis"
{adj: metamorphic} characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance
<-> nonmetamorphic
{adj: metaphysical} without material form or substance
"metaphysical forces"
{adj: modifiable} capable of being modified in form or character or strength (especially by making less extreme)
"the rhythm of physiological time is not modifiable except by interference with certain fundamental processes" - Alexis Carrel
<-> unmodifiable
{adj: modified} changed in form or character
"their modified stand made the issue more acceptable"
"the performance of the modified aircraft was much improved"
<-> unmodified
{adj: molten, liquefied, liquified} reduced to liquid form by heating
"a mass of molten rock"
{adj: monoclonal} forming or derived from a single clone
{adj: mounded over} having a wound formed over it
{adj: multiform} occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances
"the multiform universe of nature and man"- John Dewey
<-> uniform
{adj: mutable, changeable} capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
"a mutable substance"
"the mutable ways of fortune"
"mutable weather patterns"
"a mutable foreign policy"
<-> immutable
{adj: myelinic} of or relating to the substance that forms a sheath around the axon of some nerve fibers
{adj: national socialist, Nazi} relating to a form of socialism
"the national socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933"
{adj: native} as found in nature in the elemental form
"native copper"
{adj: neo} (used as a combining form) recent or new
"`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
{adj: nodular, nodulated, noduled} having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules
"nodular ores"
{adj: nominal, token, tokenish} insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal)
"the fee was nominal"
"a token gesture of resistance"
"a toknenish gesture"
{adj: nonreticulate} not resembling or forming a network
<-> reticulate
{adj: nonsyllabic, unsyllabic} not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
"the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'"
"the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'"
<-> syllabic
{adj: nonsyllabic} (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable
"initial 'l' in 'little' is nonsyllabic"
<-> syllabic
{adj: normal} forming a right angle
{adj: oblong} of a leaf shape; having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
{adj: obscure, vague} not clearly understood or expressed
"an obscure turn of phrase"
"an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard
"their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin
"vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
{adj: omnifarious} of all varieties or forms or kinds
"omnifarious reading"
{adj: organized, organised, unionized, unionised} being a member of or formed into a labor union
"organized labor"
"unionized workers"
"a unionized shop"
{adj: organized} formed into a structured or coherent whole
<-> unorganized
{adj: oxidized, oxidised} combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen
"the oxidized form of iodine"
{adj: paddle-shaped} shaped in the form of a paddle
"paddle-shaped fins"
{adj: parabolic, parabolical} having the form of a parabola
{adj: patriarchal} characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
<-> matriarchal
{adj: peninsular} of or forming or resembling a peninsula
"peninsular isolation"
{adj: perfected} (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed
"a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style"
{adj: perpendicular} intersecting at or forming right angles
"the axes are perpendicular to each other"
<-> oblique, parallel
{adj: photosynthetic} relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis
<-> nonphotosynthetic
{adj: pineal} having the form of a pine cone
{adj: pitched} (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form
"high-pitched"
{adj: pitcher-shaped} shaped in the form of a pitcher
{adj: plastic, pliant} capable of being influenced or formed
"the plastic minds of children"
"a pliant nature"
{adj: plumaged} often used as combining forms
"fully plumaged young bird"
"brightly feathered birds"
"brilliantly plumaged parrots"
{adj: polymorphic, polymorphous} having or occurring in several distinct forms
"man is both polymorphic and polytypic"
"a polymorphous god"
{adj: polymorphous, polymorphic} relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
"polymorphous crystallization"
{adj: porose} forming a continuous series of pores
"a porose hymenium"
{adj: precast} of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation
{adj: preconceived} (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice
"certain preconceived notions"
{adj: prejudiced, discriminatory} being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand
"a prejudiced judge"
<-> unprejudiced
{adj: prepositional} of or relating to or formed with a preposition
"prepositional phrase"
{adj: prismatic} exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism
"prismatic light"
{adj: prismatic} of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism
"prismatic form"
{adj: proprietary} protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
"`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form"
<-> nonproprietary
{adj: protean} taking on different forms
"eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"
{adj: proterozoic} formed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era
"proterozoic life forms"
{adj: proto} indicating the first or earliest or original
"`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages"
{adj: radical} of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
"a radical verb form"
{adj: radiolucent} almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation
"radiolucent tissues"
<-> radiopaque
{adj: radiopaque, radio-opaque} not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation
"barium sulfate is radiopaque"
<-> radiolucent
{adj: re-formed} formed again or anew
"the re-formed scout troop has been very active"
{adj: recorded} set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction
"recorded music"
<-> live
{adj: representable} expressible in symbolic form
"uniquely representable in the form..."
{adj: republican} having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government
"the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government"- United States Constitution
"a very republican notion"
"so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment"- Philip Marsh
"our republican and artistic simplicity"-Nathaniel Hawthorne
{adj: reticulate, reticular} resembling or forming a network
"the reticulate veins of a leaf"
"a reticulated highway system"
<-> nonreticulate
{adj: ribbon-shaped} shaped in the form of a ribbon
{adj: right-angled} forming a right angle or containing one or more right angles
"a right-angled bend"
{adj: rigid} designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
<-> nonrigid
{adj: ropy, ropey, stringy, thready} forming viscous or glutinous threads
{adj: roundish} somewhat round in appearance or form
{adj: rubbishy, trashy} cheap and inferior; of no value
"rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"
"trashy merchandise"
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