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  Form \Form\ (f[=o]rm; in senses 8 & 9, often f[=o]rm in
     England), n. [OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr.
     dhariman. Cf. Firm.]
     1. The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from
        the material of which it is composed; particular
        disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it
        individuality or distinctive character; configuration;
        figure; external appearance.
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              The form of his visage was changed.   --Dan. iii.
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              And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.;
        system; as, a republican form of government.
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     3. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of
        proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a
        form of prayer.
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              Those whom form of laws
              Condemned to die.                     --Dryden.
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     4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain,
        trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality;
        formality; as, a matter of mere form.
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              Though well we may not pass upon his life
              Without the form of justice.          --Shak.
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     5. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness;
        elegance; beauty.
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              The earth was without form and void.  --Gen. i. 2.
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              He hath no form nor comeliness.       --Is. liii. 2.
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     6. A shape; an image; a phantom.
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     7. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern;
        model.
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     8. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a
        school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
        ``Ladies of a high form.'' --Bp. Burnet.
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     9. The seat or bed of a hare.
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              As in a form sitteth a weary hare.    --Chaucer.
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     10. (Print.) The type or other matter from which an
         impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a
         chase.
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     11. (Fine Arts) The boundary line of a material object. In
         (painting), more generally, the human body.
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     12. (Gram.) The particular shape or structure of a word or
         part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
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     13. (Crystallog.) The combination of planes included under a
         general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a
         closed solid.
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     14. (Metaph.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities
         which makes a conception, or that internal constitution
         which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called
         essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished
         from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of
         being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea;
         objectively, a law.
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     15. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the
         intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In
         modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by
         the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or
         condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a
         mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on
         the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and
         necessary accompaniments or elements of every object
         known or thought of.
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     16. (Biol.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a
         type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an
         animal or plant.
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     Good form or Bad form, the general appearance, condition
        or action, originally of horses, afterwards of persons;
        as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in good form
        when they pull together uniformly. The phrases are further
        used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in
        society; as, it is not good form to smoke in the presence
        of a lady.
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     Good form or Bad form, the general appearance, condition
        or action, originally of horses, atterwards of persons;
        as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in good form
        when they pull together uniformly. The phrases are further
        used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in
        society; as, it is not good form to smoke in the presence
        of a lady.

  bad form
     n.
     Behaviour which is contrary to social expectations, which is
  inappropriate or rude.

  bad form
     n.
     Behaviour which is contrary to social expectations, which is
  inappropriate or rude.

  bad form
     n.
     Behaviour which is contrary to social expectations, which is
  inappropriate or rude.

  bad form
     n.
     Behaviour which is contrary to social expectations, which is
  inappropriate or rude.

  bad form /bˈad fˈɔːm/
  schlechtes Benehmen
     Synonym: bad manners
  
   see: bad, worst, not bad
  

  bad form /bˈad fˈɔːm/
  1. modortalanság
  2. neveletlenség