英文字典中文字典Word104.com

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.
[1913 Webster]

God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii.
7.
[1913 Webster]

The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far
the majority. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]

4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9.
[1913 Webster]

The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
--Drayton.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the
proper suffixes and affixes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Forming \Form"ing\, n.
The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as,
in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped
timbers.
[1913 Webster]

請選擇你想看的字典辭典：

單詞	字典	翻譯
Forming	查看　Forming　在Google字典中的解釋	Google英翻中〔查看〕
Forming	查看　Forming　在Yahoo字典中的解釋	Yahoo英翻中〔查看〕