n.
           - visible shape or configuration. 
▸style, design, and arrangement in an artistic work as distinct from its content.
 - a way in which a thing exists or appears:
 essays in book form.
 ▸any of the ways in which a word may be spelled, pronounced, or inflected.
 ▸Philosophy  the essential nature of a species or thing, especially (in Plato's thought) regarded as an abstract ideal which real things imitate or participate in.
 - a type or variety.
 - the customary or correct method or procedure. 
▸a ritual or convention.
 - a printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted.
 - chiefly Brit. a class or year in a school.
 - the state of a sports player with regard to their current standard of play. 
▸details of previous performances by a racehorse or greyhound.
 ▸a person's mood and state of health.
 ▸Brit. informal a criminal record.
 - Brit. a long bench without a back.
 - Printing,  chiefly US variant spelling of forme.
 - Brit. a hare's lair.
 - a temporary wooden structure used to hold concrete during setting.
 
v.
  - combine to create (something). 
▸go to make up.
 ▸establish or develop.
 ▸articulate (a word or other linguistic unit).
 - make or be made into a particular form:
 form the dough into balls.
 ▸
(form people/things up or form up)
 chiefly Military  bring or be brought into a certain formation.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - in 
(or chiefly Brit. on)
 form
 playing or performing well.  - off 
(or chiefly Brit. out of)
 form
 not playing or performing well. 
   
  Derivative
  
    - formability n.
  - formable adj.
  - formless adj.
  - formlessly adv.
  - formlessness n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. forme (n.), fo(u)rmer (v.), both based on L. forma ‘a mould or form’.