conform

CEFRB2

/kənˈfɔːm/

verb

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01
verb
To behave according to rules or accepted standards.
02
verb
Extra detail
To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.

In context

You should conform to the rules.
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
There is a worm by Phoebus bred, By leaves of mulberry is fed, Which unprovided where to dwell, Conforms itself to weave a cell.

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There is a worm by Phoebus bred, By leaves of mulberry is fed, Which unprovided where to dwell, Conforms itself to weave a cell.
c. 1710, “Vanbrugh's House”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 1910 edition, Jonathan Swift
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 6, in Nature
In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.
1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 11, in The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
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.
2006 December 22, “Judge Cuts Amount of Vioxx Award”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2022, retrieved 07 Jun 2011
When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].
1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115

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From Middle English conformen, borrowed from Middle French and Anglo-Norman conformer, from Latin conformāre (“to mould, to shape after”).