form from (something)

form from (something)

To arise or be created from something else. This novel formed from unpublished short stories that I wrote in college. An idea for an arrangement began to form from the notes Bill was playing. Some of the funniest lines in the screenplay formed from things her kids had said.

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form from something

[for something] to develop from something; [for something] to assume a shape, using something else as raw material. Suddenly, an idea began to form from the things that you had said. It seemed that a figure was forming from the mists arising from the swamps.

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