formers
Those who shape
Formers is the plural of former, a noun with several specialized meanings.
In manufacturing, a former is a frame, mold, or template that gives shape to something being constructed—coils wound on a former, aircraft ribs attached to formers.
In British education, formers are students in a particular year: sixth formers, first formers.
The word also appears in compounds designating people who previously held a role: office-formers, opinion-formers.
Shaping through liquid form
- dieStop being alive
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- templatePreset pattern for reproduction
- jigSpirited folk dance
fixture · pattern · thermoforming · compression · extrusion · injection · silicone · plaster
Those who open territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- foundersThose who begin institutions
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- groundbreakersInnovators who start trends
pioneers · pathfinders · originators · architects · establishers · creators · initiators · instigators
Artists who shape forms
- carversThose who cut shapes
- blacksmithsArtisans forging iron tools
- artisansSkilled manual workers
- craftsmenSkilled manual trade workers
potters · glassblowers · metalworkers · woodworkers · weavers · jewelers · masons · luthiers
Those from whom one descends
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- antecedentsThings coming before
- precursorsThings preceding others
- forebearsAncestral family members
casting
Shaping through liquid form
jig · fixture · pattern · thermoforming · compression · extrusion · injection · silicone · plaster · resin
trailblazers
Those who open territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- foundersThose who begin institutions
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
groundbreakers · pioneers · pathfinders · originators · architects · establishers · creators · initiators · instigators
sculptors
Artists who shape forms
- carversThose who cut shapes
- blacksmithsArtisans forging iron tools
- artisansSkilled manual workers
craftsmen · potters · glassblowers · metalworkers · woodworkers · weavers · jewelers · masons · luthiers · cobblers
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- antecedentsThings coming before
- precursorsThings preceding others
formersdestroyers
Fast armed naval vessels
demolishers · wreckers · annihilators · ruiners · dismantlers
formersdissolvers
Agents that break apart
grinders · crushers · flatteners · strippers · erasers
formerssuccessors
Those who follow after
currents · followers · incumbents · newcomers
- former studentsThose who graduated previously
- former president
- former gloryPrevious state of greatness
- former partnerPast romantic companion
- former loverPrevious romantic companion
- former spousePrevious marriage partner
formed, former, reformer, unformed, reformers, transformer, informers, misinformer