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Definition shape
Etymology
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“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 *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“to create, make”).
Noun
shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)
- The status or condition of something
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric figure.
- 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.
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
Verb
shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or shapen)
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- (transitive) 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.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
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