10. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
Source or sample of word "formal"11. ball: a lavish dance requiring formal attire
Source or sample of word "formal"12. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
Source or sample of word "formal"13. dinner dress: a gown for evening wear
Source or sample of word "formal"14. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"
Source or sample of word "formal"15. conventional: represented in simplified or symbolic form
Source or sample of word "formal"16. Formal Hall or Formal Meal is the traditional meal held at some of the older universities in the United Kingdom at which students dress in formal attire and often gowns to dine. ...
Source or sample of word "formal"17. A formality is an established procedure or set of specific behaviors and utterances, conceptually similar to a ritual although typically secular and less involved. ...
Source or sample of word "formal"18. formalin; being in accord with established forms; official; relating to the form or structure of something; ceremonial; Organized; well-structured and planned
Source or sample of word "formal"19. (formality) The state of being formal; Something said or done as a matter of form; A customary ritual without new or unique meaning
Source or sample of word "formal"20. (formally) In a formal manner; In accordance with official procedure; In accordance with rigorous rules
Source or sample of word "formal"21. (Formalities) The procedures that must be followed to allow a corporation to run as a separate entity.
Source or sample of word "formal"22. (Formality) words used in formal situations. Usually there are also more common words that mean nearly the same thing. For example, 'to controvert' means to argue. It's adjective is more common and less formal: 'controversial'.
Source or sample of word "formal"23. (Formally) R(S) is enclosed by R(T) iif (R(S) intersection R(T)) == R(S).
Source or sample of word "formal"24. (formis) in the stock of the publisher.
Source or sample of word "formal"25. The term Formal is applied to gardens which emphasize straight lines, right angles and circles. It makes most sense in relation to Plato's Theory of Forms and as a contrast with 'informal'.
Source or sample of word "formal"26. expressions are usually only used in serious or official language and would not be appropriate in normal everyday conversation. Examples are admonish, besmirch.
Source or sample of word "formal"27. the active or subjective aspect of something-that is, the aspect which is based on the rational activity of the subject. (Cf. material.)
Source or sample of word "formal"28. uses set formatting and business language, opposite of casual
Source or sample of word "formal"29. A dance and dinner that organizations sponsor for their members.
Source or sample of word "formal"30. Or end by which (finis quo) is the actual attainment of the good itself, e.g. beatitude itself in the blessed.
Source or sample of word "formal"31. In DocBook, a class of display elements that contain a title and is usually numbered. The class includes figure, table, example, and equation.
Source or sample of word "formal"32. in art, used to indicate an analytical approach that describes all those features of a work that are purely structural as opposed to representational or intrinsically meaningful, i.e. aspects such as color, value, dimension, line, shape, texture, mass, volume and the like.
Source or sample of word "formal"33. Learning occurs w/o formal training presentations. Training is not the same as learning.
Source or sample of word "formal"34. In an expression such as formal speech style, the word formal denotes a very careful and stylised form of speech (as opposed to the kind of informal colloquial speech style used in a casual conversation in a bar): in an expression such as formal features, the word formal means 'grammatical' (i. ...
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