Form and Keeping

Form

Form noun - A state of being or fitness.

Usage example: after a long season off, the football team is back in good form

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Keeping and form are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keeping" instead a noun "Form".

Nearby Words: formal, formation, formed, formality, formless

Keeping noun - A state of being or fitness.

Usage example: the estate hasn't been in good keeping since the owner suffered financial reverses

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Form and keeping are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Form" instead a noun "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

old	old form	old keeping
good	good form	good keeping
full	full form	full keeping
short	short form	short keeping
Other adjectives: true, single, new, early, traditional, basic, last, giant, modern.

Some of them (like Merlin) "cheat" by descending to human form while keeping the advanced knowledge of the Ancients, and come back as a more "advanced" form of human with Psychic Powers.

Source: God in Human Form
While most Gunslashes change form when they switch between sword and gun mode (usually by retracting the laser blade,) some are Mix-and-Match Weapons instead, keeping the same form in both modes.

Source: Morph Weapon
Even then, Beerus claims Goku had absorbed the power of the form, keeping him from being completely outclassed like before.

Source: Anime / Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

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