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formed
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of form
     form
          1. n. To do with shape.:
          2. n.          The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
          3. n.          A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
          4. n.          (dated) A long bench with no back.
          5. n.          (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
          6. n.          (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
          7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
          8. n.          An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
          9. n.          Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
          10. n.          Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
                        a republican form of government
          11. n.          Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
                        a matter of mere form
          12. n.          (archaic) A class or rank in society.
          13. n.          (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
          14. n.          (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
          15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
                To apply for the position, complete the application form.
          16. n. Level of performance.
                The team's form has been poor this year.
                The orchestra was on top form this evening.
          17. n. (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
          18. n. The den or home of a hare.
          19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
          20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
          21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
          22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
          23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
          24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
                When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
          25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
                Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
          26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
                When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
          27. v. 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.
          28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
                By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
          29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
                Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
          30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
                Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
          31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
          32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) 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 pero
into
     1. prep. Going inside (of).
           Mary danced into the house.
     2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
           We left the house and walked into the street.
           The plane flew into the open air.
     3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
           The car crashed into the tree;  I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
     4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
           I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.   Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
     5. prep. After the start of.
           About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
     6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
           She's really into Shakespeare right now;  I'm so into you!
     7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
           The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
     8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
           Five into three is fifteen.
     9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
           Three into two won't go.
           24 goes into 48 how many times?
     10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
           Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
clusters
     1. n. plural of cluster
     cluster
          1. n. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
                a cluster of islands
                A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
                A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
          2. n. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
          3. n. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
                The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
          4. n. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
                examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
          5. n. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
          6. n. (phonetics) A group of consonants.
                The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants.
          7. n. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
          8. n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
          9. n. (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
          10. n. (military) Set of bombs or mines.
          11. n. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
          12. n. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
          13. v. (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
                The children clustered around the puppy.
          14. v. To collect into clusters.
          15. v. To cover with clusters.
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
groups
     1. n. plural of group
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of group
     group
          1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
                there is a group of houses behind the hill;  he left town to join a Communist group
                A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
          2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
          3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
          4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
                Did you see the new jazz group?
          5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
          6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
          7. n. (chemistry) A functional group.
                Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
          8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
          9. n. (military) An air force formation.
          10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
          11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
          12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
          13. n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
          14. n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
          15. n. (business) A commercial organization.
          16. v. To put together to form a group.
                group the dogs by hair colour
          17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
of
     1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
     2. prep.          (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
     3. prep.          (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
     4. prep.          From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
                    There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
     5. prep.          (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
                    What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
     6. prep. Expressing separation.
     7. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
                    Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
     8. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
                    He seemed devoid of human feelings.
     9. prep.          (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
     10. prep. Expressing origin.
     11. prep.          (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
                    The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
     12. prep.          (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
                    The invention was born of necessity.
     13. prep.          (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
                    It is said that she died of a broken heart.
     14. prep.          (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
                    I am tired of all this nonsense.
     15. prep. Expressing agency.
     16. prep.          (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
                    I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
     17. prep.          (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
                    The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
     18. prep.          (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
                    It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
     19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
     20. prep.          (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
                    Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
     21. prep.          (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
                    She wore a dress of silk.
     22. prep.          (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
                    What a lot of nonsense!
     23. prep.          (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
                   Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
     24. prep.          (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
                    I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
     25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
     26. prep.          (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
                    I'm always thinking of you.
     27. prep.          (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
                    He told us the story of his journey to India.
     28. prep.          (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
                    This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
     29. prep. Having partitive effect.
     30. prep.          (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
                    Most of these apples are rotten.
     31. prep.          (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
     32. prep.          (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
                    On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
     33. prep.          (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
                    He is a friend of mine.
     34. prep. Expressing possession.
     35. prep.          Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
                    He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
     36. prep.          Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
                    The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
     37. prep.          Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
                    Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
     38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
     39. prep.          (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
                    She had a profound distrust of the police.
     40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
     41. prep.          (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
                    My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
     42. prep.          (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
                    Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
     43. prep.          (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
                    We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
     44. prep.          (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
                    It's not that big of a deal.
     45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
     46. prep.          (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
                    Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
     47. prep.          (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
                    I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
     48. prep.          (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
                    After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
lobules
     1. n. plural of lobule
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