Form and Plot

form

noun

The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something.
- usage: "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
- synonyms: word form, signifier, descriptor
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
- usage: "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there"
- synonyms: kind, sort, variety
A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: shape, pattern
Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline. )
- usage: "he could barely make out their shapes"
- synonyms: shape, configuration, contour, conformation
Alternative names for the body of a human being.
- usage: "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
- synonyms: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, flesh
The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.
- usage: "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
- synonyms: shape
The visual appearance of something or someone.
- usage: "the delicate cast of his features"
- synonyms: shape, cast
A printed document with spaces in which to write.
- usage: "he filled out his tax form"
Biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. (
- usage: "a new strain of microorganisms"
- synonyms: variant, strain, var.
An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse.
- usage: "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form"
A particular mode in which something is manifested.
- usage: "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility"
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)
- usage: "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
- synonyms: phase
A body of students who are taught together.
- usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
- synonyms: class, grade, course
An ability to perform well.
- usage: "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night"
A life-size dummy used to display clothes.
- synonyms: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin
A mold for setting concrete.
- usage: "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation"

verb

Create (as an entity. )
- usage: "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"
- synonyms: organize, organise
(v.) ()
- synonyms: constitute, make
Develop into a distinctive entity.
- usage: "our plans began to take shape"
- synonyms: take form, take shape, spring
Give shape or form to.
- usage: "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"
- synonyms: shape
Make something, usually for a specific function.
- usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
- synonyms: shape, work, mold, mould, forge
Establish or impress firmly in the mind.
- usage: "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
- synonyms: imprint
Assume a form or shape.
- usage: "the water formed little beads"

(n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
(v.i.) To take a form, definite shape or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
(n.) The seat or bed of a hare.
(n.) A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
(n.) 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.
(v.i.) To run to a form, as a hare.
(n.) To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
(n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
(n.) Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
(n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
(n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
(n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
(n.) That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
(n.) A shape; an image; a phantom.
(n.) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
(n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
(n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
(n.) 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.
(v.t.) 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

plot

noun

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
- usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
- synonyms: secret plan, game
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
- usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
- synonyms: plot of land, plot of ground, patch
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
- usage: "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.

verb

Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
- usage: "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
- synonyms: diagram
Make a plat of.
- usage: "Plat the town"
- synonyms: plat
Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
- usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"

(v.i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
(v.i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
(n.) A plan; a purpose.
(n.) A plantation laid out.
(n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
(n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
(v.t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
(v.t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
(n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
(n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
(n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
(n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(DoD, NATO) Map, chart, or graph representing data of any sort.
(DoD, NATO) Representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a position on a map or a chart.
(DoD, NATO) The visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant of time.
(DoD, NATO) A portion of a map or overlay on which are drawn the outlines of the areas covered by one or more photographs. See also master plot.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

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