Formed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Form \Form\ (f[^o]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[^o]rmd);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr.
     forma. See {Form}, n.]
     1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make;
        to fashion.
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              God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii.
                                                    7.
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              The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe.
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     2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion
        into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust;
        also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by
        influence, etc.; to train.
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              'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope.
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              Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the
        essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to
        make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything
        is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
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              The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far
              the majority.                         --Burke.
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     4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9.
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              The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
                                                    --Drayton.
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     5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the
        proper suffixes and affixes.
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     6. (Elec.) To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit
        condition 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
        now the plates or grids are 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Formed \Formed\ (f[^o]rmd), a.
     1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as,
        formed stars. [R.]
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     2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and
        development; organized; as, the formed or organized
        ferments. See {Ferment}, n.
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     {Formed material} (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote
        the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is
        physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly
        germinal or living matter.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  formed
       adj 1: clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances
              of success" [syn: {defined}, {settled}]
       2: having or given a form or shape [ant: {unformed}]
       3: formed in the mind [syn: {conceived}]
       4: having taken on a definite arrangement; "cheerleaders were
          formed into letters"; "we saw troops formed into columns"
       5: fully developed as by discipline or training; "a fully
          formed literary style"