shape
Meanings
- The status or condition of something
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
- Form; formation.
- A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
- A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- A loaded die.
- In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
- To create or make.
- To give something a shape and definition.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- To imagine; to conceive.
Pronunciation
Word forms
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.