shape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun.
The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: shapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: shapen
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: shapest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: shapedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: shapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shapeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: shope
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: shape
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: shaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shapen
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The status or condition of something
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
gloss: Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
gloss: A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
No design right can exist in features of appearance of a product which are solely dictated by the product's technical function (see Dyson Ltd v Vax Ltd [2010] EWHC 1923 (Pat) which held the shape of the Dyson vacuum cleaner to be unregisterable as it was purely functional) [...]
gloss: Form; formation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
A formal feature indicating a pre-Roman origin is word-final i, which is rare in the inherited nominal and adjectival lexicon. On the basis of this we may conclude that ispéli is likely the original shape of this word.
gloss: A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
It was brawn and shape for high tea.
gloss: A loaded die.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
gloss: In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To create or make.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
rare
examples: Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː
Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
gloss: To give something a shape and definition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
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.
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.
gloss: To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
pos: verb
examples: Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]
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.
gloss: To give influence to.
pos: verb
tags: person
gloss: To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
pos: verb
examples: The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
gloss: To imagine; to conceive.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
Synonyms: shape
form
Gestalt
gestalt
mold
shapen
Related words: :Category:Shapes
Derived words: bandshape
bash into shape
beat into shape
blendshape
body shape
cut up shapes
day shape
deshape
eigenshape
eyeshape
get bent out of shape
get into shape
handshape
headshape
in any shape or form
in any way, shape, or form
in bad shape
in no shape to
in no way, shape, or form
in shape
into shape
knock into shape
lick into shape
lineshape
out of shape
ring-shaped
shapechanger
shapefile
shapeful
shapeless
shapelet
shapely
shape memory alloy
shape-note
shape note
shape operator
shape poem
shape poetry
shaper
shape rotator
shapeshifter
shape-shifter
shape-shifting
shape sorter
shapester
shapewear
shapometer
shepster
shipshape
show shapes
subshape
supershape
take shape
the shape of things to come
transhape
transshape
T-shape
unshape
waveshape
whip into shape
wordshape
beshape
foreshape
forshape
misshape
outshape
overshape
preshape
reshape
shapable
shapeability
shape up
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