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take shape

verb

Definitions

  1. To take a definite form.

    • After two hours of discussion, our plans began to take shape.
    • Yet it was all interesting and the process of being partly responsible for stripping down a locomotive and seeing it take shape again was quite a thrill.
    • It was the section of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Ambergate which provided the springboard for a scheme that took shape in the early part of 1845 for a route through the Peak to Manchester.

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No curated loop yet for take shape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA