HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of FORM products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | fao'rm |
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| Rhymes | barnstorm, brainstorm, chloroform, and 26 more rhymes in aorm... |
| Meaning | The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something. |
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| Examples | "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" |
| Synonyms | word form, signifier, descriptor |
| Category | linguistics |
| Broader | word |
| Narrower | plural, plural form; singular, singular form; ghost word; root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical; etymon, root; citation form, main entry word, entry word; abbreviation; acronym |
| Meaning | A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality. |
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| Examples | "sculpture is a form of art" |
| Synonyms | kind, sort, variety |
| Broader | category |
| Narrower | description; type; antitype; art form; style; flavor, flavour; color, colour; species; genus; brand, make; genre; like, ilk; manner; model; stripe; like, the like, the likes of |
| Meaning | A perceptual structure. |
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| Examples | "the composition presents problems for students of musical form" |
| Synonyms | shape, pattern |
| Part of | percept, perception, perceptual experience |
| Broader | structure |
| Narrower | fractal; gestalt; kaleidoscope; mosaic; strand |
| Verbs | form |
| Meaning | Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline). |
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| Synonyms | shape, configuration, contour, conformation |
| Broader | spatial property, spatiality |
| Narrower | sharpness, keenness; dullness, bluntness; topography; lobularity; concavity, concaveness; convexity, convexness; angularity; narrowing; curvature, curve; roundness; straightness; crookedness; stratification |
| Attributes | straight; crooked |
| Meaning | Alternative names for the body of a human being. |
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| Synonyms | human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, flesh |
| Part of | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul; homo, man, human being, human |
| Broader | body, organic structure, physical structure |
| Narrower | person; juvenile body; adult body; male body; female body |
| Meaning | The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance. |
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| Synonyms | shape |
| Broader | attribute |
| Narrower | solid; plane, sheet; natural shape; flare, flair; figure; line; angular shape, angularity; round shape; distorted shape, distortion; amorphous shape; connection, connexion, link; circle; square; triangle; column, tower, pillar |
| Meaning | The visual appearance of something or someone. |
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| Synonyms | shape, cast |
| Broader | appearance, visual aspect |
| Meaning | (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system. Matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary. |
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| Synonyms | phase |
| Category | physical chemistry |
| Broader | state of matter, state |
| Narrower | dispersed phase, dispersed particles; dispersing phase, dispersion medium, dispersing medium |
| Meaning | A printed document with spaces in which to write. |
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| Examples | "he filled out his tax form" |
| Parts | space, blank space, place |
| Broader | document, written document, papers |
| Narrower | application form; claim form; order form; questionnaire; requisition, requisition form; tax form; telegraph form |
| Meaning | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. |
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| Synonyms | variant, strain, var. |
| Member of | species |
| Category | biology, biological science |
| Broader | taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon |
| Meaning | An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse. |
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| Examples | "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" |
| Broader | writing style, literary genre, genre |
| Narrower | versification |
| Verbs | form |
| Meaning | A particular mode in which something is manifested. |
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| Examples | "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" |
| Broader | manner, mode, style, way, fashion |
| Meaning | A body of students who are taught together. |
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| Synonyms | class, grade |
| Broader | gathering, assemblage |
| Narrower | sixth form; biology class; chemistry class; English class; first grade; master class; physics class; Sunday school class |
| Meaning | An ability to perform well. |
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| Examples | "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night" |
| Broader | ability |
| Meaning | A life-size dummy used to display clothes. |
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| Synonyms | mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin |
| Broader | dummy |
| Meaning | A mold for setting concrete. |
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| Examples | "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation" |
| Broader | mold, mould, cast |
| Verbs | form; form |
| Meaning | To compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting". |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | constitute, make |
| Broader | constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be |
| Narrower | chelate; add |
| Nouns | form |
| Meaning | Create (as an entity). |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" |
| Synonyms | organize, organise |
| Broader | make, create |
| Narrower | reorganize, reorganise, regroup; choose up; draw up; regiment; syndicate |
| Nouns | formation; formation |
| Meaning | Develop into a distinctive entity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | take form, take shape, spring |
| Broader | become |
| Narrower | regenerate |
| Nouns | formation |
| Meaning | Give shape or form to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "form the young child's character" |
| Synonyms | shape |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | individuate; tie; terrace; fork; tabulate; dimension; roll; draw; strike; crystallize, crystallise, crystalise, crystalize; twist; sliver; ridge; plume; round, round out, round off; scallop, scollop; square, square up; dish; fit; flatten; deform, distort, strain; blow; block; block; cup; encircle, circle; turn |
| Nouns | formation; form; formation; form |
| Meaning | Make something, usually for a specific function. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "Form cylinders from the dough" |
| Synonyms | shape, work, mold, mould, forge |
| Similar to | work, work on, process |
| Broader | create from raw material, create from raw stuff |
| Narrower | carve; swage, upset; chip; layer; cut out; machine; grind; stamp; puddle; beat; preform; preform; mound; hill; roughcast; reshape, remold; sinter; cast, mold, mould; throw; handbuild, hand-build, coil; sculpt, sculpture; model, mold, mould |
| Nouns | formation; formation; formation; form |
| Meaning | Establish or impress firmly in the mind. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something on somebody |
| Synonyms | imprint |
| Broader | influence, act upon, work |
| Adjectives | formative; formative; formative; formative |
| Meaning | Assume a form or shape. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "the water formed little beads" |
| Broader | change |
| Narrower | constellate; culminate; granulate, grain; conglobate, conglobe; bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump; brecciate; reticulate; flake; head; bead |
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