"conform" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "nonconform"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "conformen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English conformen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "conformer"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French conformer",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "conformāre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to mould, to shape after"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin conformāre (“to mould, to shape after”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English conformen, borrowed from Old French conformer, from Latin conformāre (“to mould, to shape after”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conforms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conforming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conformed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "conformed",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "conform (third-person singular simple present conforms, present participle conforming, simple past and past participle conformed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "con‧form"
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "acquiesce"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformance"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformation"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformist"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "conformity"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "go native"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "when in Rome"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "do as the Romans do"
    }
  ],
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          "_dis": "18 38 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1710, “Vanbrugh's House”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 1910 edition, Jonathan Swift",
          "text": "There is a worm by Phoebus bred,\nBy leaves of mulberry is fed,\nWhich unprovided where to dwell,\nConforms itself to weave a cell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 6, in Nature",
          "text": "The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the \"Claud Hamiltons\" & \"Directors\"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115",
          "text": "When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative."
      ],
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          "adapt",
          "adapt"
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          "matching",
          "match#Verb"
        ],
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          "normative",
          "normative#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 110",
          "text": "In any case, most of these sharks are gray or grayish, and they certainly are typical in that they conform to everyone's idea of what a shark is supposed to look like.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.",
        "To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.",
        "(transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior."
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        "intransitive",
        "often",
        "transitive",
        "with-to"
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 11, in The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit",
          "text": "In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 22, “Judge Cuts Amount of Vioxx Award”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-07",
          "text": "A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy."
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          "require"
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        [
          "recommended",
          "recommend"
        ],
        [
          "specification",
          "specification"
        ],
        [
          "regulation",
          "regulation"
        ],
        [
          "policy",
          "policy"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of things or procedures"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎobrazjavam se",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "съобразявам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podčinjavam se na",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "подчинявам се на"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "noudattaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "olla jonkin mukainen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "se conformer (à)"
        },
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          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "entsprechen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "gerecht werden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "genügen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "erfüllen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "essere conforme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "dostosować się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "conformar-se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "estar em conformidade com"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "conforma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "soglasovátʹsja",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "согласова́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "соотве́тствовать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "soobrazovyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "сообразовывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "soobrazovyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "сообразовываться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podčinjatʹsja",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "подчиняться"
        },
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          "_dis1": "10 28 62",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
          "word": "uymak"
        }
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/kənˈfɔɹm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)m"
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      "_dis1": "15 39 46",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations",
      "word": "acquiesce"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "comply"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "go along to get along"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "knuckle under"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "submit"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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        "idiomatic"
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      "word": "blow with the wind"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
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      "word": "fall in line"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
      "word": "fall in with"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:conform",
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        "idiomatic"
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      "word": "float with the stream"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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      "word": "follow the crowd"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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      "word": "go with the flow"
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎotvetstvuvam",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "съответствувам"
    },
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zūncóng",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "遵从"
    },
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "conform"
    },
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "noudattaa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "toimia odotusten mukaisesti"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "s’aligner"
    },
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "entsprechen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "passen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "acorda"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "concorda"
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "conforma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "alinia"
    },
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      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "соотве́тствовать"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bytʹ podobnym",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "быть подобным"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "15 47 38",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "tuân theo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 4",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt",
      "word": "sopeuttaa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt",
      "word": "anpassen"
    }
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      "word": "съответствувам"
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      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "遵从"
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      "word": "conform"
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      "word": "noudattaa"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "toimia odotusten mukaisesti"
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      "word": "s’aligner"
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      "word": "entsprechen"
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      "word": "concorda"
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      "word": "conforma"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to act in accordance with expectations; behave in the manner of others",
      "word": "alinia"
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      "word": "соотве́тствовать"
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      "word": "быть подобным"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "word": "tuân theo"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
      "word": "olla jonkin mukainen"
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      "word": "gerecht werden"
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      "word": "genügen"
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      "word": "dostosować się"
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