–noun

1.	an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.

2.	a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree.

3.	an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university.

4.	an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.

5.	a similar corporation outside a university.

6.	the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.

7.	the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.

8.	(in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school.

9.	an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president.

10.	a company; assemblage.

11.	Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity.

12.	British Slang. a prison.

–adjective

1.	pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.

2.	of or pertaining to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit.

–noun

3.	financials, financial information or data about a company, as balance sheets and price-earnings ratio.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.

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2.	to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to give help or assistance.

–noun

4.	help or support; assistance.

5.	a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.

6.	aids, Manège. a. Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight. b. Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.

7.	aide-de-camp.

8.	foreign aid.

9.	a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.

10.	English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.

–noun

1.	external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.

2.	the shape of a thing or person.

3.	a body, esp. that of a human being.

4.	a d e84 ummy having the same measurements as a human body, used for fitting or displaying clothing: a dressmaker's form.

5.	something that gives or determines shape; a mold.

6.	a particular condition, character, or mode in which something appears: water in the form of ice.

7.	the manner or style of arranging and coordinating parts for a pleasing or effective result, as in literary or musical composition: a unique form for the novel.

8.

Fine Arts. a. the organization, placement, or relationship of basic elements, as lines and colors in a painting or volumes and voids in a sculpture, so as to produce a coherent image; the formal structure of a work of art. b. three-dimensional quality or volume, as of a represented object or anatomical part. c. an object, person, or part of the human body or the appearance of any of these, esp. as seen in nature: His work is characterized by the radical distortion of the human form.

9.	any assemblage of things of a similar kind constituting a component of a group, especially of a zoological group.

10.	Crystallography. the combination of all the like faces possible on a crystal of given symmetry.

11.	due or proper shape; orderly arrangement of parts; good order.

12.	Philosophy. a. the structure, pattern, organization, or essential nature of anything. b. structure or pattern as distinguished from matter. c. (initial capital letter) Platonism. idea (def. 7c). d. Aristotelianism. that which places a thing in its particular species or kind.

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Logic. the abstract relations of terms in a proposition, and of propositions to one another.

14.	a set, prescribed, or customary order or method of doing something.

15.	a set order of words, as for use in religious ritual or in a legal document: a form for initiating new members.

16.	a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form.

17.	a typical document to be used as a guide in framing others for like cases: a form for a deed.

18.	a conventional method of procedure or behavior: society's forms.

19.	a formality or ceremony, often with implication of absence of real meaning: to go through the outward forms of a religious wedding.

20.	procedure according to a set order or method.

21.	conformity to the usages of society; formality; ceremony: the elaborate forms prevalent in the courts of renaissance kings.

22.	procedure or conduct, as judged by social standards: Such behavior is very bad form. Good form demands that we go.

23.	manner or method of performing something; technique: The violin soloist displayed tremendous form.

24.	physical condition or fitness, as for performing: a tennis player in peak form.

25.

Grammar. a. a word, part of a word, or group of words forming a construction that recurs in various contexts in a language with relatively constant meaning. Compare linguistic form. b. a particular shape of such a form that occurs in more than one shape. In I'm, 'm is a form of am. c. a word with a particular inflectional ending or other modification. Goes is a form of go.

26.	Linguistics. the shape or pattern of a word or other construction (distinguished from substance).

27.	Building Trades. temporary boarding or sheeting of plywood or metal for giving a desired shape to poured concrete, rammed earth, etc.

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28.	a grade or class of pupils in a Briti eda sh secondary school or in certain U.S. private schools: boys in the fourth form.

29.	British. a bench or long seat.

30.	Also, British, forme. Printing. an assemblage of types, leads, etc., secured in a chase to print from.

–verb (used with object)

31.	to construct or frame.

32.	to make or produce.

33.	to serve to make up; serve as; compose; constitute: The remaining members will form the program committee.

34.	to place in order; arrange; organize.

35.	to frame (ideas, opinions, etc.) in the mind.

36.	to contract or develop (habits, friendships, etc.).

37.	to give form or shape to; shape; fashion.

38.	to give a particular form or shape to; fashion in a particular manner: Form the dough into squares.

39.	to mold or develop by discipline or instructions: The sergeant's job was to form boys into men.

40.	Grammar. a. to make (a derivation) by some grammatical change: The suffix “-ly” forms adverbs from adjectives. b. to have (a grammatical feature) represented in a particular shape: English forms plurals in “-s”.

41.	Military. to draw up in lines or in formation.

–verb (used without object)

42.	to take or assume form.

43.	to be formed or produced: Ice began to form on the window.

44.	to take a particular form or arrangement: The ice formed in patches across the window.

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