shapenoun/ˈʃeɪ̯p/

• 1

  The status or condition of something

  • The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.

  • 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) [...]
• 4

  Form; formation.

  • Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
  • What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
• 5

  geometrymathematicssciencesA geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D

• 6

  A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

• 7

  A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

• 8

  archaiccookingfoodlifestyleA mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.

  • 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.

shapeverb/ˈʃeɪ̯p/

• 1

  rareTo create or make.

  • Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
  • 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
• 2

  To give something a shape and definition.

  • 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.
• 3

  To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

  • 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.
• 4

  To give influence to.

• 5

  To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

  • The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
• 6

  obsoleteTo imagine; to conceive.

  • Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.