shape

1. 1

   The status or condition of somethingcountableuncountable

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

   Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.countableuncountable

   • 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 external surface.countableuncountable

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

   Form; formation.countableuncountable

   • Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

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

8. 8

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

   • 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.
9. 9

   A loaded die.countableuncountable

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

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

syn. shape · form · Gestalt · gestalt

1. 1

   To create or make.Northern-EnglandScotlandrare

   • Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
   • 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
2. 2

   To give something a shape and definition.transitive

   • Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
3. 3

   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.
4. 4

   To give influence to.person

5. 5

   To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

   • The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
6. 6

   To imagine; to conceive.obsolete

   • Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.

syn. form · mold · shapen