form

The word “form” means the shape or visible structure of something. In plain terms, can mean shape, a paper document to fill in, a type/variety of something, or the act of creating something.

“Form” is pronounced fawm (/fɔɹm/ in IPA).

Here is “form” used in a sentence: “The sculpture took the form of a giant bird.”

Words with a similar meaning to “form” include makeup, f., transmogrify, take shape, make up and forshape.

The opposite of “form” — its antonyms — are deform, distort, disfigure, misshape and wrest.

Depending on how it is used, “form” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “form” comes from Latin. From Old French forme, from Latin fōrma ("shape, figure, mold").

“Form” is a very common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

Shape is the outline or external boundary of something — often thought of as flat and two-dimensional, like a circle or a heart. Form is fuller, taking in three-dimensional structure, mass and volume, as in the human form. In art, shape is a flat area while form suggests solid depth. Every form has a shape.

Form is the outward shape and visible appearance of something — what it looks like from outside. Structure is how it is built or arranged internally — the parts and how they fit together. Two buildings can share a form yet have a very different structure holding them up.

Form refers to visible shape or structure: 'the human form,' 'a bottle in the form of a heart,' or 'clouds constantly changing form.' It describes how something appears to the eye — its overall outline, mass and configuration — rather than what it is made of or what it does.