meaning of shape
1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
3. To image; to conceive; to body forth.
4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
6. Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
7. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
8. A model; a pattern; a mold.
9. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
10. Dress for disguise; guise.
11. A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc. , having a cross section different from merchant bar.
12. A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
13. the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of
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Related Words
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