Definitions for SHAPE

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SHAPE shape

Spelling: [sheyp]

IPA: /ʃeɪp/

Shape is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in SHAPE (aehps).

Definitions for SHAPE

noun

1. the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
2. this quality as found in some individual object or body form:
3. something seen in outline, as in silhouette:
4. an imaginary form; phantom.
5. an assumed appearance; guise:
6. a particular or definite organized form or expression:
7. proper form; orderly arrangement.
8. condition or state of repair:
9. the collective conditions forming a way of life or mode of existence:
10. the figure, physique, or body of a person, especially of a woman:
11. something used to give form, as a mold or a pattern.
12. Also called section. Building Trades, Metalworking. a flanged metal beam or bar of uniform section, as a channel iron, I-beam, etc.
13. Nautical. a ball, cone, drum, etc., used as a day signal, singly or in combinations, to designate a vessel at anchor or engaged in some particular operation.
14. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.

Idioms

1. take shape, to assume a fixed form; become definite:

Verb phrases

1. shape up, to assume a specific form: to evolve or develop, especially favorably. to improve one's behavior or performance to meet a required standard. to get oneself into good physical condition. (of longshoremen) to get into a line or formation in order to be assigned the day's work.

verb (used with object)

1. to give definite form, shape, organization, or character to; fashion or form.
2. to couch or express in words:
3. to adjust; adapt:
4. to direct (one's course, future, etc.).
5. to file the teeth of (a saw) to uniform width after jointing.
6. Animal Behavior, Psychology. to teach (a desired behavior) to a human or other animal by successively rewarding the actions that more and more closely approximate that behavior.
7. Obsolete. to appoint; decree.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to a desired conclusion or take place in a specified way:

Origin of SHAPE

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English gesceapu (plural); replacing dial. shap, Middle English; Old English gesceap (singular); cognate with Old Norse skap state, mood; (v.) Middle En

Examples for SHAPE

The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.

By pure chance I had been posted to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe, shape, on the outskirts of Paris.

Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.

Nor is his face, or more accurately the shape of the hair that hides his face, easy to forget.

But death will I choose, in any shape, rather than that man.

I'm sportively pretending that I can press it back into shape.

I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.

But what if the thoughts themselves be of a kind hard to put into shape?

And six weeks after that I had things in shape so't I was able to leave.

Let us shape the hope of this day into the noblest chapter in our history.