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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conform
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
comply with/adhere to/conform to a codeformal (= follow one)
▪ All staff must sign and strictly adhere to a Code of Business Ethics.
comply with/meet/conform to regulations
▪ Hotel kitchens must comply with these regulations.
conform to/adhere to conventionformal (= do what is accepted and normal)
▪ He’d always chosen not to conform to convention.
fit/conform to a stereotype (=be like the usual idea of something)
▪ He doesn’t fit the stereotype of a Stanford student.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
▪ Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded.
▪ Girls are supposed to be conformist; but what appealing models are there for them to conform to?
▪ And Brotherhood was the only object one was expected to conform to in becoming a member.
▪ Women's power lies in conforming to and consolidating these statuses.
■ NOUN
expectations
▪ Most of the time, things will indeed conform to our expectations.
▪ Musical notation also did not conform to traditional expectations.
▪ Because certain people do not conform to academic expectations or social abilities of others, this can not place them outside society.
ideal
▪ Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded.
▪ Banning books which don't conform to that ideal is another.
▪ However, the shy beauty of Freud's young woman does not conform to the glamourous ideals of the age.
image
▪ It conformed to her image of what a public school should look like.
▪ Conversely, while pupils are expected to conform to certain role images, pupils who exaggerate these are also problematic.
law
▪ He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community.
▪ Kennedy responded that marshals would be removed when state officials kept order and conformed to federal law.
▪ And multinationals must conform to national laws and regulations on additives, flavourings, colourings and artificial low-calorie sweeteners.
▪ The formulation is strange, since it suggests that one can measure a person's ability to conform to the law.
norm
▪ We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms.
pattern
▪ Quotations conform to the same pattern of assessment and explanation type.
▪ In nearly every way, false open-mindedness conforms to the pattern of a self-defeating organizational behavior.
▪ ONCE again, we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns.
▪ When he considered the twelve-foot window spacings, it became clear that individual office sizes would have to conform to this pattern.
▪ Activity has been made to conform to rational pattern.
▪ They must conform to the pattern and standard size laid down by the Post Office.
▪ The Partnership Programmes began to appear in 1978, tending to conform to a standard pattern.
▪ It conformed to this pattern, with plenty of free time and many independent meals.
pressure
▪ Once such norms have been developed, there are strong pressures on people to conform to them.
▪ As women get higher and higher in powerful corporate ranks, the pressure to conform increases proportionately.
▪ With women especially, there is a great deal of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape.
▪ And the trouble is that once one person plays the stress card, the pressure to conform is huge.
▪ We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms.
principle
▪ How might the non-fatal offences be reformed soas to conform with the principle of fair labelling?
▪ They are a utility like gas, and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy.
requirement
▪ Traherne must have conformed to the religious requirements of the Commonwealth.
▪ Indeed, few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement.
▪ Failure to conform to Commission requirements within 45 days would lead to their compulsory introduction.
▪ A failure to conform to the legal requirements in contracting a marriage will render that marriage void.
rule
▪ She doesn't conform to the rules of society.
▪ It is so much easier to conform to arbitrary rules imposed by some one else on the basis of age.
▪ Kasparov conforms to the rules when playing P-K4, but that is not why he picks P-K4 from among his legal options.
▪ Furthermore, such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse.
specification
▪ UIM/X automatically generates C source code based on Motif, conforming to standard specifications for C so that the code is extremely portable.
standard
▪ Depending on the strength of identification with the reference groups an individual may conform to its standards and norms.
▪ Perhaps being gay, they do not feel obliged to conform to traditional male standards.
▪ Secondary aims included conforming to existing industry standards and defining interfaces to other languages.
▪ Britain should conform to international standards.
▪ Where they conform to any lesser standard they will not provide protection.
▪ This means it can support integrated applications with any system conforming to the standard.
▪ This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour.
▪ Silver of this period should conform to the Britannia standard but does not always do so.
stereotype
▪ The problem is, however, that real history rarely conforms to later stereotypes.
▪ I don't need to conform to a prevailing stereotype in the search for distinguished and illustrious positions.
■ VERB
ensure
▪ When such material is used it must be ensured that it conforms approximately in density and shape with the natural beach material.
expect
▪ And Brotherhood was the only object one was expected to conform to in becoming a member.
▪ Members of the group will come to expect one another to conform to these patterns if they wish to remain members of it.
▪ Furthermore, such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse.
fail
▪ The chief aesthetic charge against the art works was that their characteristically modernist expressionist distortions failed to conform to a naturalistic realism.
make
▪ Activity has been made to conform to rational pattern.
▪ Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model.
refuse
▪ As is so often the case, however, nature refuses to conform to such a convenient theory.
▪ To refuse to conform is to risk threats to national independence.
▪ Senators who refused to conform to these inherently conservative norms were condemned to ineffectiveness.
▪ He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people.
▪ She was always the outsider, refusing to conform to traditions, obstinate and impudent.
▪ Illness occurs when these pictures are refused the opportunity to conform with pictures of life as it actually is.
▪ It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Getting everyone on the team to conform has taken a long time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, for example, represents an attempt to conform to one of them.
▪ Indeed, few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement.
▪ Neither of them conforms to the default format, but they both work.
▪ Techniques such as object oriented design and structured programming will have to be followed to conform to engineering practice.
▪ They do not conform well to national polls.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conform

Conform \Con*form"\, v. i.

  1. To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.

    A rule to which experience must conform.
    --Whewell.

  2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

    About two thousand ministers whose consciences did not suffer them to conform were driven from their benefices in a day.
    --Macaulay.

Conform

Conform \Con*form"\, a. [L. conformis; con- + forma form: cf. F. conforme.] Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
--Bacon.

Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith.
--Bp.Hall.

Conform

Conform \Con*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Conforming.] [F. conformer, L. conformare, -formatum; con- + formare to form, forma form. See Form.] To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.

Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church.
--Hooker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conform

mid-14c., confourmen, from Old French conformer "conform (to), agree (to), make or be similar, be agreeable" (13c.), from Latin conformare "to fashion, to form, to shape; educate; modify," from com- "together" (see com-) + formare "to form" (see form (v.)).\n

\nSense of "to comply with the usages of the Church of England" is from 1610s; hence conformist (1630s), opposed to non-conformist or dissenter. Related: Conformance; conformed; conforming.

Wiktionary
conform

vb. 1 {{context|intransitive|of persons|often followed by (term to English)|lang=en}} To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure. 2 (context intransitive of things, situations, etc. English) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline. 3 (context transitive English) To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.

WordNet
conform

  1. v. be similar, be in line with [ant: deviate]

  2. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" [syn: adjust, adapt]

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Usage examples of "conform".

The subject also conforms to the Adlerian descriptions of siblingless personality traits.

He owned an old French Colonial in Saigon, but spent the bulk of his time at his house in Binh Khoi, one of the flower townscommunities built at the turn of the century, intended to provide privacy and comfort for well-to-do Vietnamese whose sexual preferences did not conform to communist morality.

Elliot Rose, in Cases of Conscience, published in 1975, the year in which the Vietnam War ended, drew a parallel between Catholics who refused to conform in the reign of Elizabeth and James I, and protesters against the Vietnam War.

The scope of the fuel investigations has been planned to conform to the provisions of the Act of Congress which provides for analyzing and testing coals, lignites, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to the United States, or for the use of the United States Government, and examinations for the purpose of increasing the general efficiency or available supply of the fuel resources in the United States.

While the Columban brothers conformed to a monastic rule that was not unlike the one with which the Templars were familiar, based on Cistercian and Benedictine usage, their meditations and spiritual disciplines and even the liturgies they held in common with the rest of the Church Universal all breathed an air of liberation.

That is, the power to do as they please, provided it conforms to the rule which others chose to lay down!

Consequently, the minister who conforms his intention to the Church as to the former rectitude, but not as to the latter, perfects the sacrament indeed, but gains no merit for himself.

The exercise therefore conforms to the established exercise for great guns only as far as circumstances will admit.

Inspector shall appoint, and compared with samples, to see that it conforms to the standard, and is, in quantity and quality, as called for by the requisition or order of the Bureau for its delivery.

We understand an order more easily and quickly if it conforms to some plan with which we are familiar.

The one should be taken which conforms closest to the description, but you should bear in mind that a good field of fire and effective cover, in the order named, are the most important requisites.

The lower court had asserted that the duty of the President under the faithful execution clause gave him no other control over the officer than to see that he acts honestly, with proper motives, but no power to construe the law, and see that the executive action conforms to it.

Let me know how far your present programme of sailings conforms to this.

All the original restaurants in Wichita conformed to the architectural criteria that Ingram established in 1921: a whitewashed exterior, a crenellated tower, and the slogans painted on the wall.

After Conower called recess Mark was waiting for Pretorius, kind of hopping up and down without leaving his horrible chair, ergonomically designed to conform perfectly to the mass man but to fit no individual.