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核心畫面

You can think of 'form' as the visible shape an outline gives to something — the figure you see when matter takes on a definite contour. From that one picture two big ideas branch: as a noun, the shape/arrangement a thing has; as a verb, the act of a shape coming into being.

可以想成：「form」核心畫面比較像一團東西被勾出輪廓、顯出一個可辨認的形狀。你站在霧裡，遠處慢慢浮出一個身影——那…更多收起可以想成：「form」核心畫面比較像一團東西被勾出輪廓、顯出一個可辨認的形狀。你站在霧裡，遠處慢慢浮出一個身影——那個「被看見的外形」就是 form。從這個畫面長出兩條路：當名詞，是事物呈現出來的形狀與安排；當動詞，是「形狀正在出現、被組起來」這個動作。

原始詞典資料36 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

formnoun/fɔːm/

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    headingTo do with shape.

    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
    • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
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    headingTo do with shape.

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    headingTo do with shape.

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    headinghuman-sciencesphilosophyTo do with shape.

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    headingTo do with shape.

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    datedheadingTo do with shape.

    • And there with syr Launcelot wrapped his mantel aboute his arme wel and surely and by thenne they had geten a grete fourme oute of the halle and there with all they rasshed at the dore […].
    • In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.
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    headingTo do with shape.

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    chemistrycrystallographyheadingTo do with shape.

另外 18 個記錄的用法
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    To do with structure or procedure.

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    To do with structure or procedure.

    • Those whom form of laws Condemned to die.
    • [H]e sprang into the road, without previously going through the empty form of advising the driver of his intention, to pick [his hat] up.
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    To do with structure or procedure.

    • a republican form of government
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    To do with structure or procedure.

    • a matter of mere form
    • Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice.
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    archaicTo do with structure or procedure.

    • ladies of a high form
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    To do with structure or procedure.

    • It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
    • As for the notion that it’s not how Sunak would have won, that doesn’t mean a whole lot coming from a guy whose recent form includes losing to Liz Truss.
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    To do with structure or procedure.

    • The team's form has been poor this year.
    • The orchestra was on top form this evening.
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    educationTo do with structure or procedure.

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    datededucationTo do with structure or procedure.

    • Nathaniel: Maister, there is nobody to teach in the sixth form. Maister: What a thing is this? N: He is sick in bed. M: How do you know? N: One of the scholars in his house told me so.
    • I am a very weak, insufficient scholar, sitting on the lowest form in Thy great school-house, which is the whole world, and trying to spell out the mere letters of Thy alphabet […]
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    A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

    • To apply for the position, complete the application form.
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    A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.

    • participial forms;  verb forms
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    The den or home of a hare.

    • Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme[…].
    • The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsA window or dialogue box.

    • While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.
    • Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
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    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyAn infraspecific rank.

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    datedmediaprintingpublishingThe type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

    • And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.
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    geometrymathematicssciencesA quantic.

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    hobbieslifestylesportsA specific way of performing a movement.

formverb/fɔːm/

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    To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

    • When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
    • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
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    To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

    • Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
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    To take shape.

    • When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
    • As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
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    To put together or bring into being; assemble.

    • The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
    • Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
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    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

    • By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
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    To constitute, to compose, to make up.

    • Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
    • the diplomatic politicians[…]who formed by far the majority
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    To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

    • Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
    • 1731–1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 'Tis education forms the common mind.
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    To provide (a hare) with a form.

    • The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
    • This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    historicalbusinesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

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