shape

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To create or make.
2. To give something a shape and definition.
3. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
4. To give influence to.
5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
6. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

Concepts

shape

form

figure

appearance

mold

mould

build

fashion

model

outline

make

style

create

physique

cut

image

contour

frame

configuration

body

structure

cast

pattern

look

face

condition

state

way

stature

human body

forge

conformation

feature

format

influence

formation

manner

carve

anatomy

silhouette

design

work

sculpture

turn

affect

sway

devise

construct

posture

bearing

engrave

contours

substance

formalize

arrange

pare

determine

regulate

bod

chassis

flesh

material body

physical body

soma

embodiment

block

apparition

profile

nature

looks

formative

type

organize

fitness

arrangement

knead

sculpt

character

order

trim

establish

hue

characteristic

act

impinge

alter

bias

change

modify

transform

compose

constitute

plan

pass a test

successful

alteration

series

construction

build up

hit

carriage

corporeal frame

arc

become

develop

whittle

beauty

die

phantom

guise

ordain

decree

happen

befall

shape a plan намечать план

likeness

disposition

personality

temperament

ways

countenance

outward look

straighten

carping

obloquy

rap

dungarees

overalls

modelling

mold making

molding

moulding

aspect

cook

invent

sight

reflection

size

give shape to

good health

pinch

be

by

characterise

characterize

its

leave

mark

marked

on

their

a

coherent

give

something

good

health

in

gestalt

personage

array

kelter

kilter

ordering

sequence

fettle

repair

eidos

line

phrase

word

beat

blend

squeeze

shade

tone

feel

kind of

role model

fix

colour

angle

educate

make up

set up

train

kind

view

conduct

corpse

example

engraving

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃeɪp/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

The exact shape of the cavity is often dependent on how many lamps are used .