Shape
[ʃeɪp] or [ʃep]
Definition
(noun.) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; 'geometry is the mathematical science of shape'.
(noun.) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); 'he could barely make out their shapes'.
(noun.) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; 'a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life'.
(verb.) give shape or form to; 'shape the dough'; 'form the young child's character'.
(verb.) make something, usually for a specific function; 'She molded the rice balls carefully'; 'Form cylinders from the dough'; 'shape a figure'; 'Work the metal into a sword'.
Edited by Ian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
(n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
(n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
(n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
(v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
(n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
(n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
(n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
(n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
(n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Form, frame, mould, figure, fashion, model.
n. Fork (with especial reference to what is visible), figure, configuration, mould, fashion, outline, appearance, cut, build, cast, TOURNURE, external appearance.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Figure, form, outline, mould, fashion, pattern, cast, model,[SeeAUDACIOUS_and_INDELICATE]
SYN:Form, mould, figure, adapt, delineate, adjust, contrive, create, execute, make
ANT:Pervert, distort, misadapt, misdelineate, derange, discompose, misconstrue,misproduce, caricature
Typed by Cedric
Definition
v.t. to form: to fashion: to adapt to a purpose: to regulate: to direct: to conceive.—v.i. (Shak.) to take shape to become fit:—pa.p. shāped (B.) shāp′en.—n. form or figure: external appearance: that which has form or figure: an appearance: particular nature: expression as in words: a pattern: (cook.) a dish of rice jelly or the like cast in a mould and turned out when it has grown firm.—adjs. Shā′pable Shape′able; Shaped having a varied ornamental form; Shape′less having no shape or regular form: (Shak.) effecting nothing.—ns. Shape′lessness; Shape′liness.—adj. Shape′ly having shape or regular form: symmetrical.—ns. Shā′per a metal planing machine the tool with reciprocating motion; Shā′ping representation imagination.—Take shape to assume a definite form or plan.
Checked by Aurora
Examples
- It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Had the shape approached me I might have swooned. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, I understand Lily is about to assume them in the shape of Mr. Rosedale, Mrs. Fisher said with a laugh. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The roots radiate a short distance below the surface of the ground and there is no stabilizer in the shape of a tap root such as in other woods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I was left helpless, with the prospect of a coming incumbrance in the shape of a child. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Death in all shapes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but I seemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No one sees more vividly than he the fact that in the interplay of the arts one industry shapes and helps another, and that no invention lives to itself alone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The most efficient form of water motor is the turbine, a strong metal wheel shaped somewhat like a pin wheel, inclosed in a heavy metal case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At last he got away, and shaped his course for Hatfield. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- No, only the trade of cutting gems and shaping mirrors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The demand for continuous attention is greater, and more intelligence must be shown in selecting and shaping means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My responsibility began and ended with shaping her instructions into the proper legal form. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The next slight touch in the shaping of Clym's destiny occurred a few days after. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But Lizzie, with her lips only, shaping the two words, 'Her father,' he delayed no longer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Randolph