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What (who) is former - definition
OBJECT THAT GIVES SHAPE TO A CURVED STRUCTURE
Frame (aircraft); Former (structure); Aircraft frame; Frame (aeronautics)
former
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Former is used to describe someone who used to have a particular job, position, or role, but no longer has it.
...former President Richard Nixon...
He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
Former is used to refer to countries which no longer exist or whose boundaries have changed.
...the former Soviet Union.
...the former Yugoslavia.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
Former is used to describe something which used to belong to someone or which used to be a particular thing.
...the former home of Sir Christopher Wren.
...a former monastery.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Former is used to describe a situation or period of time which came before the present one. (FORMAL)
He would want you to remember him as he was in former years.
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
When two people, things, or groups have just been mentioned, you can refer to the first of them as the former.
Given the choice between a pure white T-shirt and a more expensive, dirty cream one, most people can be forgiven for choosing the former...
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PRON: the PRON
former
former1
¦ adjective
1. having been previously.
of or occurring in the past.
2. (the former) denoting the first or first-mentioned of two people or things.
Origin
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former2
¦ noun
1. a person or thing that forms something.
2. a transverse strengthening part in an aircraft wing or fuselage.
3. a frame or core around which an electrical coil can be wound.
4. [in combination] Brit. a person in a particular school year: a fifth-former.
former
I. n.
Maker, framer, author, creator, constructer.
II. a.
1.
Previous, prior, anterior, antecedent, preceding, forgoing.
2.
Quondam, ci-devant, late, old-time.
3.
Past, gone by, bygone, foregone, previous.
4.
First named, first mentioned.
Wikipedia
Former
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature.
A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used.
Examples of use of former
1. Ex–communists, former royalists, former Islamic fighters, former Taliban and former warlords all jockey for power.
2. They include: former CIA Director Robert Gates; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican; former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan; former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta; former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry; former Democratic Sen.
3. Loyola de Palacio, Former EC vice–president and energy commissioner Antonio Cardoso e Cunha, Former EU energy commissioner Christos Papoutsis, Former EU energy commissioner Ignacio Perez–Arriaga, Former Spanish energy regulator Jacques de Jong, Former Dutch energy regulator Jorge Vasconcelos, Former chairman, Council of European Energy Regulators Pantelis Capros, Former Greek energy regulator Peter Kaderjak, Former Hungarian energy regulator Pippo Ranci, Former Italian energy regulator Vicente Lopez–Ibor, Former Spanish energy regulator
4. Other members are cochair James Baker III, former secretary of Treasury and State; former CIA director Robert Gates; former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; and former Sen.
5. Podesta, a former chief of staff to former President Clinton.