formers
USFOR-murz/ˈfɔɹmɚz/UKFAW-muhz/ˈfɔːməz/
- 1Plural of former.
Coil winders rely on cylindrical formers to keep each turn of wire evenly spaced.
The pastry chef pressed soft dough into a row of fluted formers before baking.
Note
Only the nouns take this plural: makers and founders, shaping tools such as templates, gauges or cutting dies, and, in British use, pupils in a given form (class). The adjective meaning 'previous' or 'the first of two' never does. When the former points back to plural things, it stays former: the former were cheaper, never the formers were cheaper.
formers is a form of former
former, noun: A pupil belonging to a particular form, or year group, in a British school. Full entry
- Forms
- formerformers plural
- Spelling
- former → formers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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