conform

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

   They conformed to the club's dress code.

2. 2
   verb

   to be similar, be in line with

   I conformed to the rules of the group.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

Etymology

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