sideform

A process for setting concrete which uses forms to confine the concrete to the desired width.

Noun business, construction

A process for setting concrete which uses forms to confine the concrete to the desired width.
- Two basic methods of paving are in use in South Africa, namely, sideform and slipform. With the sideform method, metal sideforms are used to confine the concrete to the desired width. - 1982, Charles G. Dyer, Road...
Coordinate Terms: slipform
Any of the forms used when setting concrete with this method.
- As part of a larger arrow diagram, a contractor wants to include the following activities related to construction of a foundation for a light commercial building: place steel sideforms; pour foundation; excavate for...

An alternative or variant form of a word or morpheme.
- The old þina, g. s. of þu, = of-thee, has such sideforms as the oldest Swedish sina, gen. sing, of the reflective pronoun, and as the M. Goth. seina, […] - 1866-7, George Stephens, “Dialects”, in The Old-Northern Runic...
- Whether sen, ten etc. are sometimes side-forms to se, te etc. after ne : nen, is a question that need not occupy us here. - 1912, Emrik Slettengren, “Aphæresis in Romance and Latin loan-words”, in Contributions to the...
- The normal treatment of ṛ is threefold: a, i, and u, or the side[-]forms ra, ri, and ru. - 1965, Sumitra Mangesh Katre, Some Problems of Historical Linguistics in Indo-Aryan:
Synonyms: byform

Uncertain. Apparent etymologies include a learned borrowing from Norwegian sideform, a calque of German Nebenform, and a compound of side + form.