shape

  • (noun): The status or condition of something
  • (noun): Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • (noun): The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
  • (noun): Form; formation.
  • (noun): (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
  • (noun): (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
  • (noun): A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
  • (noun): In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
  • (verb): To create or make.
  • (verb): To give something a shape and definition.
  • (verb): To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • (verb): (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • (verb): To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • (verb): To imagine; to conceive.
  • The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
  • The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
  • He cut a square shape out of the cake.
  • Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
  • Shape the dough into a pretzel.   For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.