Nature vs Form - What's the difference?
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(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
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*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
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*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
To do with shape.
# The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
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# Characteristics not involving atomic components. (rfex)
# (label) A long bench with no back.
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# (label) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
# (label) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
(label) To do with structure or procedure.
# An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
# Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
# Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) A class or rank in society.
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# (label) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
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# (label) Level.
## A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in (sixth form)).
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## (label) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
(label) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
The den or home of a hare.
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A window or dialogue box.
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(label) An infraspecific rank.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
(label) A quantic.
(lb) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
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, title= (lb) To take shape.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
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(lb) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
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*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
*:the diplomatic politicianswho formed by far the majority
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
*1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in (w, Boys' Life) , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608,
*:Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:'Tis education forms the common mind.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
As a proper noun nature
is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.As a noun form is
shape.nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Derived terms
* animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)Verb
(natur)External links
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* 1000 English basic words ----form
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Alternative forms
* forme (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
Urban canopies let nature bloom, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
- I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside.
- The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms , as benches used to be called.
- Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
- Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.
- ladies of a high form
- It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
- One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in?"
- From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
- Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme .
- The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form , as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
- Hares left their snug ‘forms ’ in the cold grass.
- While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form .
- Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
Synonyms
* (shape) ** figure, used when discussing people, not animals ** shape, used on animals and on persons * (blank document) formular * (pre-collegiate level) grade * (biology)Derived terms
* form class * form factor * form feed * form genera * form genus * form letter * form taxon * in form * longform * mid-season form * return to form * shortform * subform * typeformVerb
(en verb)William E. Conner
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