Crossword clues for formed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formed \Formed\, a.
(Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.]
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(Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.
Formed material (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.
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.]
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To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
God formed man of the dust of the ground.
--Gen. ii. 7.The thought that labors in my forming brain.
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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.
'T is education forms the common mind.
--Pope.Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
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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.
The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority.
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To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
--Drayton. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
(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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: form)
WordNet
adj. clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances of success" [syn: defined, settled]
having or given a form or shape [ant: unformed]
formed in the mind [syn: conceived]
having taken on a definite arrangement; "cheerleaders were formed into letters"; "we saw troops formed into columns"
fully developed as by discipline or training; "a fully formed literary style"
Usage examples of "formed".
I formed the intention of slipping upstairs to wake Abney, only then I heard voices, and thought I could recognize yours, my lord, so I crept along the gallery to see if it were indeed you.
Compared to the soft and warm colors of the web stretching out below the peak, the purplish pink that surrounded him was wrong, not subtly wrong, but oppressively so, a color and shade that did not belong on Acorus, that conflicted and fought with the tapestry formed by the softer lifewebs.
Hundreds of FBI agents have been reassigned and a raft of new task forces have been formed.
The system of notation, in Agro, was reduced to nine digits and a cipher, numbers being formed as one would give a telephone number in English.
A second mission attempt was being made by Airbus Iterspatiale, formed from the French Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, British Aerospace, the Spanish Construcciones Aeronauticas S.
Tom was trying to peer through the crisscrossed aisleways which were formed by the hundreds of big trees.
Bradley had noted something of the obvious indications of a gradual evolution from ape to spearman as exemplified by the several overlapping races of Alalus, club-men and hatchet-men that formed the connecting links between the two extremes with which he, had come in contact.
Beatles, albums see albums by the Beatles Apple Group contract, 569, 580 avant-garde, 231, 234, 329, 372 Beatlemania, xii, 73, 95, 171, 186 biographies, xii break-up, 576-88 at the Cavern, 80-83 as celebrities, 128 changes in show business, 139 disbanded, 553 dislike of image, 303-4 dispute about Allen Klein, 547-9 and drugs, 184-92, 198-9, 347, 378, first record, 37 formed from the Quarry Men, 52 and Greek Island, 377-80 in Hamburg, clothes, 71, 76, 101 at the Indra, 57-8 at the Kaiserkeller, 59-63 deported, 73 houses, 167-70 and the Maharishi, 396-404 Mayfair flat, 102 modern music, 330-1 origin of name, 52 recordings rejected by Decca, 89 sleeve design for, Abbey Road, Sgt.
When sulphuric acid is used as the assistant along with the bichrome, then there is formed on the wool fibre a deposit of chromic acid and chromium oxide, and this exerts an oxidising effect on the colouring matter or dye-stuff, which in some cases, as the Alizarine Blue, Alizarine Yellow, etc.
Wolfgang had formed a project for helping the Webers by undertaking a journey to Italy in company with Aloysia and her father, with the object of writing an opera in which Aloysia should appear as prima donna.
The distinguishing characteristic of all ammonites was the complex suture pattern formed by the meeting of the growth chamber walls with the outside shell.
Lesser Animalia had finally formed their sections and were warming up under the chair.
The insane, deformed, animalistic duggers were formed by the same process.
The warriors who accompanied Nom Anor and the Shaper Lord formed another line within.
It was not until the Anschluss had been proclaimed on the thirteenth that a French government was formed under Leon Blum.