-former

Definition

form / fↄ:m / n [C] ၁။ သြင္ျပင္။ ပံု။ သဏၭာန္။ her slender form ❍ The human form has changed little over the last 30000 years. ❍ Through the fog we could see the form of a large plane on the runway. ၂။ [C] ပံုစံ။ အသြင္။ အသြင္သဏၭာန္။ different forms of government ❍ different literary forms ❍ works for the piano in sonata form ❍ The form of a poem is less important than its content. ၃။ [C] အမ်ဳိးအစား။ ပံုစံ။ နည္း။ ဟန္။ different forms of transport/ housing ❍ What's the correct form of address when you talk to a bishop? ၄။ [C] ပံုစံ၊ အသြင္။ water in the form of ice ❍ a generous gift in the form of £ 10000 ❍ Help arrived in the form of two policemen. ❍ The book is written in the form of two policemen. ❍ The book is written in the form of letters. ❍ This disease can take several different forms. ❍ What form did the student protests take? ❍ ‘Is’ ‘are’ and ‘were’ are all forms of the verb ‘to be’ ❍ I'm opposed to censorship in any way, shape or form. ၅။ [sing U] ပံုစံ။ နည္း။ ဟန္။ What's the form when you apply for a research grant? ❍ If you have any questions about banking procedures, ask Jim. He knows the form. ❍ Wives or husbands of employees are invited to the Christmas party as a matter of form. ❍ True to form (ie As he usually does), he arrived an hour late. ၆။ [U] လုပ္နည္း လုပ္ဟန္။ နည္းဟန္။ It's considered good form to write to or phone your hostess after a dinner party. ❍ Wearing bright colours to a funeral in Britain is bad form. ၇။ [U] (က) အေျခအေန။ ပံု။ After six month's training the whole team is in superb form. ❍ What sort of form are you in? ❍ She's in/ on great form; I haven't seen her looking so happy and well for years. (ခ) (လက္၊ ေျခ၊ ပံုစံစသည္) မွန္ျခင္း၊ ေကာင္းျခင္း။ These exercises will keep you in form. ❍ That horse looks rather out of form to me. ❍ When he's on form, nobody plays Schubert better. ၈။ [U] စံခ်ိန္။ လကၡဏာ။ ပံုစံ။ Do you know anything about this horse's form? ❍ On present/ current form, they're unlikely to win. ၉။ [U] ( sl ) ျပစ္မႈမွတ္တမ္း။ He's got quite a bit of form. ၁၀။ [C] ပံုစံ။ a job application form ❍ an insurance claim form ❍ fill in/ complete and sign the necessary forms. ၁၁။ [C] (ေက်ာင္း) အတန္း။ …တန္း။ He's in the sixth form; next year he's going to university. ❍ Who's your form teacher? v ၁။ (က) ပံုသြင္းသည္။ ပံုေဖာ္သည္။ Using your hands, form the dough into balls. ❍ They form the clay into figures of animals. (ခ) ဖြဲ႕သည္။ form the present perfect tense ❍ She can't form her words correctly, so we think she may be a bit deaf. သူသည္ စကားပီသေအာင္ မရြတ္ဆိုႏိုင္ သည့္အတြက္ နားပင္းေနသည္ဟု ယူဆရသည္။ ၂။ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ ပံုစံေဖာ္သည္။ The stones form a huge circle. ❍ The mountains form a natural barrier between the two countries. ❍ The running water had frozen and formed fantastic shapes. ၃။ (တန္း)စီသည္။ (စက္ဝိုင္း) ဝိုင္းသည္။ form a line/ queue ❍ They formed a circle and started to dance. ၄။ (က) ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ တစ္စတစ္စ တိုးတက္သည္။ ရင့္သန္သည္။ Ice forms at 0¹ Celsius. ❍ A queue for tickets started forming early in the morning. နံနက္ေစာေစာကပင္ လက္မွတ္ဝယ္ရန္ တန္းစီၾက သည္။ Stormclouds had begun to form on the horizon. ❍ Their friendship formed gradually over the years. (ခ) ရင့္သန္သည္။ ဖြဲ႕သည္။ ပံုသြင္း သည္။ form a habit ❍ form a relationship with sb. တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ႏွင့္ အေပါင္း အသင္းလုပ္သည္။ character-forming experiences ❍ They believed that physical hardship in childhood helped forms a strong character. ၅။ ဖြဲ႕စည္းသည္။ ဖြဲ႕သည္။ form a government/ committee ❍ form an organization to protect the environment. ❍ We're thinking of forming a new company. ၆။ ျဖစ္သည္။ ပါဝင္သည္။ These three early paintings form the centrepiece of the exhibition. ❍ Consultation with the public forms part of the planning process. You and I form the only opposition to these crazy new plans. ❏ -former (forming compound ns ) n (အတန္းေက်ာင္း) အတန္းသား၊ သူ။ …တန္းသား။ …တန္းတက္ေနသူ။ a sixth former. ❏ formless adj မသဲကြဲေသာ။ formless shadows/ ideas/ dreams.

Examples

1. [form of] : The car is by far the most popular form of transport.
2. He developed a rare form of cancer.
3. Everyone agrees that the kids must receive some form of punishment.
4. The information is also available in electronic form.
5. [in the form of] : You can get the medicine in the form of a nasal spray or as a tablet.
6. Help arrived in the form of six heavily armed police officers.
7. [take the form of] : The aid might take the form of food or medical supplies.
8. Neglect of children can take a variety of forms.
9. She stared at the lifeless form on the driveway.
10. Three forms gradually emerged out of the darkness.
11. Use the order form to get new office supplies.
12. [fill in/out a form] : Make sure you fill in the application form completely and legibly.
13. She blamed a foot injury for her recent loss of form.
14. The band’s new CD marks a welcome return to form (=to a previous high standard).
15. [in/on (good etc) form] : She is hoping to be on top form in time for the Olympics.
16. [in good/bad etc form] : I saw Sam last night – he was in great form.
17. He was in my form at school.
18. She’s now in the sixth form.
19. It’s important to learn all the forms of a verb.
20. Nouns like ‘child’ that have irregular plural forms
21. The form of the novel is complex
22. with numerous flashbacks.