shape meaning
EN
[ʃeɪp] [-eɪp] 
US WShape
- A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material composition.
- Psychologists have theorized that humans mentally break down images into simple geometric shapes called geons. Examples of geons include cones and spheres.
- ^ Marr, D., & Nishihara, H. (1978). Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , 200, 269-294.
- NounPLshapes
- The status or condition of something.
- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
- The appearance of something, especially its outline.
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- 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 jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- The status or condition of something.
- VerbSGshapesPRshapingPTshapedPTshopePPshapedPPshapen
- VT 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.
- OBS To imagine; to conceive.
- VT To give something a shape and definition.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It was not the days of drudgery in the rice fields but the hours of off time that most shaped the contours of slave culture.
- Modern Gymnarchus have teeth that vary in shape from incisiform at the symphysis to caniniform distally on the jaw.
- Go to then, and desire God to print this profession in thine heart, and to increase it daily more and more; that thou mayest be full shapen like unto the image of Christ, in knowledge and love.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- After two hours of discussion, our plans began to take shape.
- Bifacially retouched knives used to deflesh hides and to cut meat or skin can be distinguished by their edge angle and partially by their shape.
- We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of shape in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
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- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "shape" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.