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Noun

  1. {{lb|en|heading|physical}} {{n-g|To do with shape.}}
  2. {{lb|en|social}} {{n-g|To do with structure or procedure.}}
  3. A blank document or [[template]] to be filled in by the user.
  4. A [[specimen]] [[document]] to be copied or imitated.
  5. {{lb|en|grammar}} A grouping of words which maintain grammatical [[context]] in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
  6. The [[den]] or [[home]] of a [[hare]].
  7. {{lb|en|computing|programming}} A [[window]] or [[dialogue box]].
  8. {{lb|en|taxonomy}} An [[infraspecific]] rank.
  9. {{lb|en|printing|historical}} The [[type]] or other matter from which an [[impression]] is to be taken, arranged and secured in a [[chase]].
  10. {{lb|en|geometry}} A [[quantic]].
  11. {{lb|en|sports|fitness}} A specific way of performing a [[movement]].

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To assume (a certain [[shape]] or visible structure).
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To give (a [[shape]] or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To take [[shape]].
  4. To put together or bring into being; [[assemble]].
  5. {{lb|en|transitive|linguistics}} To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  6. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[constitute]], to [[compose]], to [[make up]].
  7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  8. To provide (a [[hare]]) with a form.
  9. {{lb|en|electrical|historical|transitive}} To [[treat]] ([[plate]]s) 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 [[alternation]]s 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.

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