Definition of "shape"

shape

/ʃeɪp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural shapes
1. The status or condition of something
2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
3. The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
4. Form; formation.
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  What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
  2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light
5. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
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  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.
  1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter IV, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 92
  It was brawn and shape for high tea.
  1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 111
8. (gambling) A loaded die.
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  A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
  1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings, page 76
9. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb
third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen
1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  Quotations
  Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
  1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː
2. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
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  The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
  1932, The American Scholar, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, page 227
  Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
3. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
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  Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]
  1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], book II (Pleasure), page 437
  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.
  2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
4. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  Quotations
  The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]
6. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
  Quotations
  Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]

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