Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) form, organize, organise (create (as an entity)) "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"
S: (v) form, constitute, make (to compose or represent) "This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"
S: (v) shape, form (give shape or form to) "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"
S: (v) shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge (make something, usually for a specific function) "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
S: (v) imprint, form (establish or impress firmly in the mind) "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
S: (v) form (assume a form or shape) "the water formed little beads"
S: (adj) ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile (capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out) "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
S: (adj) shaped, molded, wrought (shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)) "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"