shape

Speech parts

1. shape - Noun

2. shape - Verb

Meaning

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.

To image; to conceive; to body forth.

To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.

Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.

That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.

A model; a pattern; a mold.

Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.

Dress for disguise; guise.

A rolled or hammered piece, 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.

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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Joan Miró

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill

Mold water into a shape. Thai Proverb

Easy to change young wood shape than the old one. Thai Proverb

He who predicts or prophesise isn't the one who causes his predictions to take shape. African Proverb

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