0 present participle of conform
1 to behave according to the usual standards of behaviour that are expected by a group or society:
At our school, you were required to conform, and there was no place for originality.
Note that all types conforming to this grammar are products whose terms are either primitive or function types.
Conservatives made their messages compatible with the rhetorical environment, understanding whether consciously or unconsciously that their prospects hinged on conforming to it.
We produce them, and then, by conforming our actions to their constraints, we reproduce them.
In their popular readership they comprised an evangelical reading community that was neither exclusively conforming nor exclusively nonconformist.
For the performer, conforming to backing tracks or click tracks is very different from interacting with responsive partners.
They have to learn the local legal constraints on physician action so that they can make judgments about conforming with or violating the law.
Most theories of syntax deal only with inputs conforming to their grammatical rules.
Politeness is the practice of conforming linguistic action to current social expectations that are bound to speech communities.
