shape

Meanings

Noun

• 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 two-dimensional figure.
• Form; formation.
• 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.

Verb

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• form, mold, shapen

Narrower meaning words

• contest shape

Origin

• 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, 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 *skapjaną ("to create"), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa ("create, make"), Norwegian Bokmål skape ("create").