conform
verb
- to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave
- (cause) to be similar, comply
- structural configuration, esp. of atoms, animals
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kənˈfɔːm/ / /kənˈfɔɹm/
verb
Etymology: From Middle English conformen, borrowed from Middle French and Anglo-Norman conformer, from Latin conformāre (“to mould, to shape after”).
- To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
“There is a worm by Phoebus bred, By leaves of mulberry is fed, Which unprovided where to dwell, Conforms itself to weave a cell.”
“The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.”
- To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
“[H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.”
“[B]y conforming to the dress and habits of the Gauchos, he has obtained an unbounded popularity in the country.”
- To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
“In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.”
“A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law. […] But Judge Alex W. Gabert, in a Rio Grande City courtroom, ordered the punitive damage reduced to conform to a 2003 Texas law that caps punitive damages at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $750,000 on top of noneconomic damages.”