Difference between Form and Phase

What is the difference between Form and Phase?

Form as a noun is the shape or visible structure of a thing or person. while Phase as a noun is a distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.

Form

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages. Characteristics not involving atomic components. A criminal record. A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person). To take shape. To develop a conception in mind. To change a word by inflection.

Example sentence: Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Phase

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (to phase out) To discontinue (doing) something over a period of time (i.e., in phases).To stun or shock someone.To become stunned or shocked.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.

Example sentence: Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

We hope you now know whether to use Form or Phase in your sentence.

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