(heading, physical) A shape or visible structure that can give shape to other things, represents regularity, beauty, or elegance, embodies the inherent nature of an object, defines the boundary line of a material object or the human body in painting, and represents the combination of planes in crystallography.
(social) To do with structure or procedure, an order of doing things, an established method of expression or practice, a constitution or mode of construction, an empty outside appearance or conventionality, a criminal record or past history, a level of performance, and a class or year of school pupils.
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
The den or home of a hare.
(computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
(geometry) A quantic.
(sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
(intransitive) To take shape.
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
(transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
(electrical, historical, transitive) To 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.