form from

form from (something)

To arise or be created from something else. This novel formed from unpublished short stories that I wrote in college. An idea for an arrangement began to form from the notes Bill was playing.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

form from something

[for something] to develop from something; [for something] to assume a shape, using something else as raw material. Suddenly, an idea began to form from the things that you had said. It seemed that a figure was forming from the mists arising from the swamps.
See also: form
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • form from (something)
  • arise out of (something)
  • sin against
  • sin against (someone or something)
  • let's shake on it
  • bring on oneself
  • bring someone on
  • shake hands on something
  • shake on
  • shake on (something)
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There is no attempt to derive form from function in the time-honoured Modernist manner, no appeal to an imagined objective realm in order to justify design decisions.
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