Crossword clues for forming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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
n. The act by which something is formed; formation. vb. (present participle of form English)
Wikipedia
Forming may refer to:
- "Forming" (song), a song by the Germs
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Forming (metalworking), a metalworking process where a workpiece is reshaped without adding or removing material
- Cold forming or work hardening
- Roll forming
"Forming" is the debut single by American punk rock band the Germs. Released on What?, an independent start-up label, in July 1977, it is regarded as the first true Los Angeles punk record.
Forming, or metal forming, is the metalworking process of fashioning metal parts and objects through mechanical deformation; the workpiece is reshaped without adding or removing material, and its mass remains unchanged. Forming operates on the materials science principle of plastic deformation, where the physical shape of a material is permanently deformed.
Usage examples of "forming".
Sir Arthur has strengthened the front by felling trees and forming abattis, so that he has good reason to hope that, poor as the Spanish troops may be, they should be able to hold their part of the line.
On Thursday and Friday the Austrians were engaged, as usual, in felling trees, forming abattis, throwing up earthworks, and in all ways strengthening their position.
Like Washington and many others, Adams had become increasingly distraught over the rise of political divisiveness, the forming of parties or factions.
Nefar and Akan and I sprang apart, forming a loose semicircle between the two flames like wary herd animals trapped in a blind.
In the Antaean sea a new volcano is forming, wiping out the majority of marine life for miles around.
Its ramp lowered and the three Dragons roared out, splashed into the water, and raced toward the Aquarius Station compound, forming a line three abreast as they went.
She had covered herself quickly, draping the shawl across her and Caleb as though forming some kind of protective barrier against him.
Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Walter Map, Chrestien de Troyes, Robert de Borron, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Hartmann von Aue, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, and Wagner have all written of these legends in turn, and to these writers we owe the most noted versions of the tales forming the Arthurian cycle.
These portolanos or sailing charts are of great interest to the Australasian student, not only because they depict for the first time the Molucca Islands, but also because Java, Bali, Lomboc and Sumbawa are set down on them as distinct and separate islands, whereas on a class of maps a little later in date, on which the Australian Continent is represented, some of those islands are indicated as forming part of the northern shores of Australia.
Simon knew where it was only from the cluster of colony trains keeping station around it, slim silver bars agleam with reflected sunlight, forming their own tight little cluster.
On the morning of the 20th, daylight had scarcely dawned when twenty thousand men, the greater part of whom were armed with some weapon or other--muskets, pikes, hatchets, crowbars, and even spits from the cook-shops forming part of their equipment--assembled on the place where the Bastile had stood.
The next dance was forming, and Lord Bennington, with apparent boredom, was leading Eugenia, all smiles, to the set.
Stephanie would begin the process of harvesting the multipotential stem cells from the forming blastocysts, but until then she would have some free time.
On the polished desk in front of him, the blue light beat downward, forming a concentrated oval of brilliance.
Beyond it rises the great mask of granite forming the apex, a bonier skeleton than any before seen.