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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Frederick W. Smith

Meaning of "well-formed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-FORMED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-FORMED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-Formed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WELL-FORMED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of well-formed in the English dictionary

The definition of well-formed in the dictionary is constructed in accordance with the syntactic rules of a particular system; grammatically correct.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-FORMED

well-educated
well-endowed
well-equipped
well-established
well-favoured
well-fed
well-financed
well-finished
well-fitted
well-fixed
well-formedness
well-fortified
well-found
well-founded
well-furnished
well-governed
well-groomed
well-grounded
well-guarded
well-handled

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-FORMED

biformed
confirmed
deformed
half-formed
ill-formed
ill-informed
informed
malformed
normed
Reformed
to be reliably informed
twiformed
undeformed
unformed
uniformed
uninformed
unperformed
unreformed
untransformed
unwormed
well-informed

Synonyms and antonyms of well-formed in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «well-formed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-FORMED

Find out the translation of well-formed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-formed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-formed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

合式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bien formado
570 millions of speakers

English

well-formed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से बनाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بشكل جيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо сформирован
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bem formado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুগঠিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien formé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibentuk dengan baik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wohlgeformt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

適格な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 형성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uga kawangun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cũng như hình thành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு வடிவமைக்கப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यवस्थित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İyi oluşturulmuş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ben formato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sensowne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре сформований
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine formată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλοσχηματισμένα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed gevorm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välformade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velformet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-formed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-FORMED»

The term «well-formed» is regularly used and occupies the 63.419 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-formed

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QUOTES WITH «WELL-FORMED»

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Frederick W. Smith
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-FORMED»

Discover the use of well-formed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-formed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essentials of Symbolic Logic
The rules for creating well-formed formulas will be explained as the language is developed. Other combinations do not conform to the rules. When these are shown for purposes of illustration, they will be flagged with three daggers ('ttt') to ...
R.L. Simpson, 1998
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ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS
and modification of data, Clark and Wilson proposed that access be permitted only through execution of certain programs and well-formed transactions, and that the rights of users to execute such code be restricted based on the particular role ...
Marshall C. Yovits, 1994
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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 18th ...
If both formulas u : F and u : G are well-formed, then F and G coincide. Proof. It can easily be checked by induction on derivations of well-formed formulas that if vH : J is well-formed, then H coincides with J. The term u has the form vH for some ...
Lev D. Beklemishev, Ruy de Queiroz, 2011
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Six Papers in Logic
of all free occurrences of the variable x in ip(x). The transition from the upper sequent to the lower one according to the rules of comprehension is allowed in all considered systems if and only if both ^(t) and ( € Anp(x) are well-formed formulas ...
‎1987
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Meaning and Argument: An Introduction to Logic Through Language
(P&Q)&~P So far, you have been introduced to only three types (or kinds) of grammatical statements, or what we shall call well-formed formulas in PL: simple statements, logical conjunctions, and logical negations.1 So, the question of how  ...
Ernest Lepore, 2009
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
The expressions 'well-formed' and 'ill-formed' first came into linguistics as part of the terminology of generative grammar: as they are commonly employed, they imply conformity to a set, or system, of precisely formulated rules or principles.
John Lyons, 1995
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Logic
These variables simply range over all the well-formed formulas of PL, simple and complex. So, 'A' stands for any well-formed formula of PL and 'B' stands for any well-formed formula and so on. Because these variables represent formulas of ...
Paul Tomassi, 2013
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Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 4th ...
Let EeC be a constant and S be a schema. Then the ordered pair (E, IlErules(S)) is defined as the subschema of S with respect to E. It is obvious that II Erules(S) Crules(S) according to Definition 23. Theorem 1. All subschemas of a well- formed ...
Guozhu Dong, Chanjie Tang, Wei Wang, 2003
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Mathematics and Computation in Music: First International ...
With the significant exception of one structural subcategory, all other pairwise well-formed scales participate in modulating cycles that generalize the maximally smooth cycles defined in Cohn 1996 and intersect with the Cohn functions defined ...
Timour Klouche, Thomas Noll, 2009
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The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine
Hepworth's Albion. — Good pod and well-formed petals, but apt to have too many small stripes in them, colours good. Hepworth's Leader. — Good pod and well- formed petals, flower large, colours good, marks well. Hoyle's Duke of Leeds.
‎1842

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-FORMED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-formed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Third Undercover Planned Parenthood Video Released
... discuss what they are seeing with technicians and doctors, and the money issue is as much a part of the conversation as how well-formed that kidney is. «Aleteia EN, Jul 15»
2
Pope Francis: Vocations are about quality, not quantity
Well-formed vocations are more important than numerous vocations Pope Francis said in an address to religious formators on Saturday at the Vatican. “There is ... «Catholic News Agency, Apr 15»
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Axiom Verge Review
... there's still fun to be found in the exploration and discovery facets of this intricate, well-formed world. Axiom Verge is one of the purest forms of Metroidvania ... «Attack of the Fanboy, Mar 15»
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Gray Matter
In an interview just before Christmas in his office overlooking the Hudson, Gibney tended to talk in well-formed mini-essays, as if he had all the time in the world ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
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Columnist to diva: How do you stay so thin?
As an opera goer, while I certainly appreciate a well-formed star and so understand Aaron's point, my focus is on the music and the staging. I don't consider the ... «Slipped Disc, Nov 14»
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Lawyer: Unborn Child of Bali Murder Suspect is "Well-Formed"
“The baby is well formed with the spine, head, hands and feet already visible,” a statement from Favia read. “The heart rate monitor indicates reassuring tones ... «NBC Chicago, Sep 14»
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Ancient Maori adze discovered
A large well-formed Maori adze, made of argillite, was found at Lake Onoke by a woman picking up driftwood and is being kept at Aratoi Museum of Art and ... «Wairarapa Times-Age, Aug 14»
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Can Democracy be Christian? Reflections on How To (Not) Be a …
Democratic culture is characterised by the loss of elegant speech. Well-formed sermons may be the most important contribution Christians can make to a politics ... «ABC Online, Jun 14»
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On Human "Tails," Theistic Evolutionist Karl Giberson Has Another …
Switching gears, as of today he says, "I gave some examples of bad design and showed a picture of an infant with a well-formed tail to illustrate one example.". «Discovery Institute, Jun 14»
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The Conscience of Thomas More and the Little Sisters of the Poor
For More, one develops a well-formed conscience according to intense study of both the civic law and God's law; what he knows he is bound to follow, the ... «First Things, Feb 14»

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