Form vs. From — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Form and From
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Definitions
Form➦
The shape and structure of an object
The form of a snowflake.
From➦
Used to indicate a specified place or time as a starting point
Walked home from the station.
From six o'clock on. See Usage Notes at escape, whence.
Form➦
The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal; figure
In the fog we could see two forms standing on the bridge.
From➦
Used to indicate a specified point as the first of two limits
From grades four to six.
Form➦
A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.
From➦
Used to indicate a source, cause, agent, or instrument
A note from the teacher.
Taking a book from the shelf.
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Form➦
A mold for the setting of concrete.
From➦
Used to indicate constituent material or materials
A table made from wood.
Form➦
The way in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself
An element usually found in the form of a gas.
From➦
Used to indicate separation, removal, or exclusion
Keep someone from making a mistake.
Liberation from bondage.
Form➦
(Philosophy) The essential or ideal nature of something, especially as distinguished from its matter or material being.
From➦
Used to indicate differentiation
Know right from wrong.
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Form➦
A kind, type, or variety
A cat is a form of mammal.
From➦
Because of
Faint from hunger.
Form➦
(Botany) A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.
From➦
Used to indicate source or provenance.
Paul is from New Zealand.
I got a letter from my brother.
You can't get all your news from the Internet.
Form➦
Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in verbal or musical composition
Presented my ideas in outline form.
A treatise in the form of a dialogue.
From➦
Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
This manuscript is from the 1980s.
Form➦
A particular type or example of such arrangement
The essay is a literary form.
From➦
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He departed yesterday from Chicago.
This figure has been changed from a one to a seven.
Face away from the wall!
Form➦
Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom
Gave his consent solely as a matter of form.
From➦
Indicating a starting point in time.
The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
Tickets are available from 17th July.
Form➦
Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom
Arriving late to a wedding is considered bad form.
From➦
Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
Start counting from 1.
Form➦
A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony
"As they had never had a funeral aboard a ship, they began rehearsing the forms so as to be ready" (Arthur Conan Doyle).
From➦
Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
You can study anything from math to literature.
Form➦
A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information
Insurance forms.
From➦
With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
It's hard to tell from here.
Try to see it from his point of view.
The bomb went off just 100 yards from where they were standing.
From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.
Form➦
Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria
A musician at the top of her form.
From➦
(MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. since being
I’ve been doing this from pickney.
Form➦
A pattern of behavior or performance
Remained true to form and showed up late.
From➦
Indicating removal or separation.
After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
The general was ousted from power.
Form➦
Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training
A dog in excellent form.
From➦
Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
Form➦
A racing form.
From➦
Indicating exclusion.
She was barred from entering.
A parasol protects from the sun.
Form➦
A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools
The sixth form.
From➦
Indicating differentiation.
Your opinions differ from mine.
He knows right from wrong.
Form➦
A linguistic form.
From➦
Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
It's made from pure gold.
Form➦
The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.
From➦
Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
Too many people die from breast cancer.
Form➦
Chiefly British A long seat; a bench.
From➦
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; - used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; - the antithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
Experience from the time past to the time present.
The song began from Jove.
From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came.
If the wind blow any way from shore.
Sudden partings such as pressThe life from out young hearts.
Form➦
The lair or resting place of a hare.
Form➦
To give form to; shape
Form clay into figures.
Form➦
To make or fashion by shaping
Form figures out of clay.
Form➦
To develop in the mind; conceive
Her reading led her to form a different opinion.
Form➦
To arrange oneself in
Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.
Form➦
To organize or arrange
The environmentalists formed their own party.
Form➦
To fashion, train, or develop by instruction, discipline, or precept
Formed the recruits into excellent soldiers.
Form➦
To come to have; develop or acquire
He formed the habit of walking to work.
Form➦
To enter into (a relationship)
They formed a friendship.
Form➦
To constitute or compose, especially out of separate elements
The bones that form the skeleton.
Form➦
To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection
Form the pluperfect.
Form➦
To make (a word) by derivation or composition.
Form➦
To become formed or shaped
Add enough milk so the dough forms easily into balls.
Form➦
To come into being by taking form; arise
Clouds will form in the afternoon.
Form➦
To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern
The soldiers formed into a column.
Form➦
To do with shape.
Form➦
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
Form➦
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
Form➦
Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
Form➦
(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
Form➦
Characteristics not involving atomic components. en
Form➦
(dated) A long bench with no back.
Form➦
(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
Form➦
(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Form➦
(social) To do with structure or procedure.
Form➦
An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
Form➦
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
Form➦
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
A republican form of government
Form➦
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
A matter of mere form
Form➦
(archaic) A class or rank in society.
Form➦
(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
Form➦
Level of performance.
The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.
Form➦
A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
Form➦
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.
Form➦
A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
Form➦
(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Participial forms;
Verb forms
Form➦
The den or home of a hare.
Form➦
A window or dialogue box.
Form➦
Essentials
Form➦
(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
Form➦
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Form➦
(geometry) A quantic.
Form➦
A specific way of performing a movement.
Form➦
(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
Form➦
(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
Form➦
(intransitive) To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
Form➦
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
Form➦
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
Form➦
(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
Form➦
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
Form➦
To provide (a hare) with a form.
Form➦
To treat (plates) to prepare them 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 later the plates or grids were 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.
Form➦
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
The form of his visage was changed.
And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.
Form➦
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
Form➦
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
Those whom form of lawsCondemned to die.
Form➦
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Though well we may not pass upon his lifeWithout the form of justice.
Form➦
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
The earth was without form and void.
He hath no form nor comeliness.
Form➦
A shape; an image; a phantom.
Form➦
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
Form➦
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
Form➦
The seat or bed of a hare.
As in a form sitteth a weary hare.
Form➦
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Form➦
The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.
Form➦
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
Form➦
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Form➦
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
Form➦
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
Form➦
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
Form➦
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
God formed man of the dust of the ground.
The thought that labors in my forming brain.
Form➦
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.
Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
Form➦
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.
Form➦
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
Form➦
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.
Form➦
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
Form➦
To run to a form, as a hare.
Form➦
The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;
The inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached
Form➦
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Sculpture is a form of art
What kinds of desserts are there?
Form➦
A perceptual structure;
The composition presents problems for students of musical form
A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
Form➦
Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
He could barely make out their shapes through the smoke
Form➦
Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Form➦
The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;
Geometry is the mathematical science of shape
Form➦
The visual appearance of something or someone;
The delicate cast of his features
Form➦
(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;
The reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system
Form➦
A printed document with spaces in which to write;
He filled out his tax form
Form➦
(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
A new strain of microorganisms
Form➦
An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;
The essay was in the form of a dialogue
He first sketches the plot in outline form
Form➦
A particular mode in which something is manifested;
His resentment took the form of extreme hostility
Form➦
A body of students who are taught together;
Early morning classes are always sleepy
Form➦
An ability to perform well;
He was at the top of his form
The team was off form last night
Form➦
A life-size dummy used to display clothes
Form➦
A mold for setting concrete;
They built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation
Form➦
To compose or represent:
This wall forms the background of the stage setting
The branches made a roof
This makes a fine introduction
Form➦
Create (as an entity);
Social groups form everywhere
They formed a company
Form➦
Develop into a distinctive entity;
Our plans began to take shape
Form➦
Give a shape or form to;
Shape the dough
Form➦
Make something, usually for a specific function;
She molded the riceballs carefully
Form cylinders from the dough
Shape a figure
Work the metal into a sword
Form➦
Establish or impress firmly in the mind;
We imprint our ideas onto our children
Form➦
Give shape to;
Form the clay into a head
