shape
IPA: ʃˈeɪp
noun
- The status or condition of something
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
- Form; formation.
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- (cooking, now rare) A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
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Examples of "shape" in Sentences
- This shape is also known to represent the pagan God called, Remphan.
- Inspiring someone to lose weight and get in shape is a wonderful gift.
- Another development is shape memory alloys which recover their shape with a temperature change.
- Finally, applying repeater to a shape is also a perfect candidate for After Effects ‘Brainstorm’.
- Being in shape is one point, but having your legs in basketball shape is a totally different thing.
- The pumpkin shape is cute on its own, and a pumpkin muffin certainly needs no additional decoration.
- There are some dangling plot threads, and some details/layering missing ... but the shape is there, and I think the last line gets to stay ...
- To illustrate the functionality let's take an example of createCommand readonly ArrayList _graphicsList; public CreateCommand (DrawObject shape, ArrayList graphicsList) {_shape = shape; _graphicsList = graphicsList;} void Execute () {_graphicsList.
- But by the next harvest I had it so constructed, as to be drawn by an iron bar so shaped, appended and supported on the underneath part of the carriage, as to admit of the machine turning in any direction, and the carriage would follow just as the two hind wheels of a wagon do; the carriage had a seat behind, and a thick, deep cushion in front, for the raker to press his knees against while removing the grain from the platform to his right hand, which he was enabled to do with apparent ease with a _rake of peculiar shape_; -- (it cannot be done with a rake of ordinary shape).
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