n.

1. 形状；外形[C][U]
   Churches are often built in the form of a cross.

   教堂常常建成十字形。

2. 种类，类型[C][（+of）]
   It was a form of blackmail.

   那是一种讹诈。

3. （艺术作品的）表现形式，体裁[U]
   He adopted the prose form.

   他采用散文形式。

4. （运动员等的）体能状况；良好的健康状态[U]
   If she is in form, she can win the match easily.

   如果她竞技状态良好，她可以轻易赢得这场比赛。

5. 表格[C]
   To apply for a job, you must fill out a form.

   申请工作要填表。

6. （规定或惯常的）方式；做法；形式[the S]
   We shook hands as a matter of form.

   我们照例握握手。

7. 举止，礼貌[U]
   It is very bad form to insist on talking about oneself.

   一味讲自己如何如何是很不礼貌的。

8. （学校的）年级[C]
   The boy is in the fourth form.

   这男孩上四年级。

9. 长板凳[C]

vt.

1. 形成；构成；塑造；构（词）；造（句）
   The design is formed with triangles.

   该图案由若干三角形组成。

2. 组织；成立
   We formed a club.

   我们成立了一个俱乐部。

3. 养成
   He forms the habit of getting up early.

   他养成早起的习惯。

4. 排列成；把……编排成[O]
   The boys formed a line.

   男孩们排成一行。

vi.

1. （物体）成形；被形成
   Clouds are forming on the top of the hill.

   山顶上形成了云。

2. 排（队），列（队）[Q]
   The girls formed into three lines.

   女孩子排成三行。

3. （计划、主意等）开始形成；产生
   An idea formed in her mind.

   她脑子里产生了一个主意。

n.

1. visible shape or configuration.
   ▸style, design, and arrangement in an artistic work as distinct from its content.
2. 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.
3. a type or variety.
4. the customary or correct method or procedure.
   ▸a ritual or convention.
5. a printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted.
6. chiefly Brit. a class or year in a school.
7. 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.
8. Brit. a long bench without a back.
9. Printing,  chiefly US variant spelling of forme.
10. Brit. a hare's lair.
11. a temporary wooden structure used to hold concrete during setting.

v.

1. combine to create (something).
   ▸go to make up.
   ▸establish or develop.
   ▸articulate (a word or other linguistic unit).
2. 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.