different form

collocation in English

meaningsofdifferentandform

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different
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/
not ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofdifferentandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdifferent form

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To verify this condition, it is convenient to rewrite it in a slightlydifferentform.
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To illustrate, a similar analysis can be presented when altruism takes adifferentform.
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In adopting a traditional state power, the federal government was adopting an utterlydifferentformof governance and citizenship.
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Indeed, the pleasure of the raving body, as a resistance to the dominant moral order, contributes to adifferentformof power relations.
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To turn these rules into computationally interpretable processes of generation, they need to be recast in adifferentform.
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They also reflected adifferentformof reading habit toward the narrative text.
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If the proposed iconicity is the result of the basic cognitive principle -differentform, different meaning - 'thus' presumably means 'so we see'.
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This would put that particular point onto the curve of figure 8, but it would not alter the decisivelydifferentformof the two curves.
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In the final stanza, however, there is a verydifferentformof time at work.
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Their clothing took adifferentformthan that supplied by couturiers, tailors or modistes.
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An architectural school offers a verydifferentformof education to the closeted and uneven, if occasionally brilliant, alternative of the old apprentice based system.
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He stated why his book was not a ' fully documented life ', but omitted to specify the 'differentform' that it took.
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Each status is overtly signaled by adifferentform(or forms) that has that status as part of its conventional meaning.
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First we have to write (6.1) in adifferentform.
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However, activity which was felt to be compulsory might be judged to be a qualitativelydifferentformof participation from voluntary activity.
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This was to take a radicallydifferentform.
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The communal structuring of daily life also extended into the home, where it tookdifferentform.
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