Synonym: agree, assent, comply, obey, submit. Similar words: confounded, on foot, inform, informal, information, confuse, confess, confide. Meaning: [kən'fɔːm] v. 1. be similar, be in line with 2. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.
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61 The chief aesthetic charge against the art works was that their characteristically modernist expressionist distortions failed to conform to a naturalistic realism.
62 However, the shy beauty of Freud's young woman does not conform to the glamourous ideals of the age.
63 The zeal to conform and inform on their neighbours gave the Inquisition many willing helpers.
64 They are a utility like gas, and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy.
65 And multinationals must conform to national laws and regulations on additives, flavourings, colourings and artificial low-calorie sweeteners.
66 When he considered the twelve-foot window spacings, it became clear that individual office sizes would have to conform to this pattern.
67 It would require them to conform to stricter accounting and electoral procedures, and suggests scrutiny by the National Audit Office.
68 And it's a very distinctive shape, which doesn't conform with anything in this room.
69 Abolitionists thus aspired to make their actual metropolitan and colonial societies conform more closely to these underlying ideas of order.
70 Getting everyone on the team to conform has taken a long time.
71 As is so often the case, however, nature refuses to conform to such a convenient theory.
72 Schoolboys are very conventional and quick to gang up on any boy who in behaviour or dress does not conform.
73 It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism.
74 Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded.
75 Quotations conform to the same pattern of assessment and explanation type.
76 ONCE again, we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns.
77 Such foreign-controlled labs may help adapt or develop products and/or production processes to better conform to local conditions.
78 These grades have to conform to the normal curve of distribution.
79 Other female psychologists conform to Laws's description of women in academia who take on male-associated traits to mask their gender.
80 Indeed, few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement.
81 This observation did appear to conform with the actual behaviour of money wages in the interwar period, particularly in Britain.
82 Sometimes agreement is apparent rather than real because of the tendency to conform and fall in with majority opinion.
83 He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people.
84 Conversely, while pupils are expected to conform to certain role images, pupils who exaggerate these are also problematic.
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85 The formulation is strange, since it suggests that one can measure a person's ability to conform to the law.
86 These results indicate that index futures appear to conform to a general pattern of leptokurtosis.
87 Failure to conform to Commission requirements within 45 days would lead to their compulsory introduction.
88 Dole spent much of the day trying to demonstrate how he has overhauled his campaign to conform to his populist message.
89 With women especially, there is a great deal of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape.
90 Leather is strong, abrasion resistant and will conform to the shape of the foot.
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