shape

Betekenis

1. The status or condition of something
2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
3. A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. Though fully descriptive when applied to objects within the geometrically abstract purview of reality as opposed to any scenario more concrete, it is well-understood that the introduction of the third dimension acting upon the physics of the object in the latter introduces the possibility of diminishing the term's descriptive power.
4. Form; formation.
5. A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
8. A loaded die.
9. In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

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/ʃeɪp/

Etymologie

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.