shape

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The status or condition of something

   • The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
2. 2

   Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

   • The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
   • We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
3. 3

   A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or…

   A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.

   • What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
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   1. 4

      Form

      Form; formation.

      • Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
      • What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
      • A formal feature indicating a pre-Roman origin is word-final i, which is rare in the inherited nominal and adjectival lexicon. On the basis of this we may conclude that ispéli is likely the original shape of this word.
   2. 5

      A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D

   3. 6

      A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…

      A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

   4. 7

      A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…

      A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

   5. 8

      A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a…

      A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.

      • And if I 'm late for supper there 's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there is a little rhubarb and shape.
      • It was brawn and shape for high tea.
   6. 9

      A loaded die.

      • A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
   7. 10

      In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…

      In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

   8. 11

      To create or make.

      • Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
      • 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
   9. 12

      To give something a shape and definition.

      • Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
   10. 13

       To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

       • Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]
       • Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
   11. 14

       To give influence to.

   12. 15

       To suit

       To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

       • The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
   13. 16

       To imagine

       To imagine; to conceive.

       • Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.

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• synonymGestalt
• synonymmoldgive shape
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