forming

1. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

   When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

2. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

   Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

3. To take shape.

   When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

4. To put together or bring into being; assemble.

   Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

5. To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

   By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

6. To constitute, to compose, to make up.

   Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

   Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

8. To provide (a hare) with a form.
9. To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

noun

The act by which something is formed; formation.