"forme" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "formes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forme (plural formes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "form"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of form."
      ],
      "id": "en-forme-en-noun-xA4wgkZD",
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "type etc. secured in a chase",
          "word": "form"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Printing",
          "orig": "en:Printing",
          "parents": [
            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,\nBoth these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2."
        },
        {
          "text": "1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,\nQ2 was printed in twenty-two formes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41",
          "text": "In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-forme-en-noun-HTUahAL6",
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forme"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "formes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forme (plural formes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "form"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English obsolete forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of form."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "type etc. secured in a chase",
          "word": "form"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Printing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,\nBoth these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2."
        },
        {
          "text": "1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,\nQ2 was printed in twenty-two formes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41",
          "text": "In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forme"
}