Word Finder - shape

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The status or condition of something

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The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.

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Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

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The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.

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The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.

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He cut a square shape out of the cake.

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Form; formation.

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

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

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

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In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

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To create or make.

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Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.

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To give something a shape and definition.

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Shape the dough into a pretzel.   For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.

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To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

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(of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.

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To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

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To imagine; to conceive.

The dream took shape as it did every night.

The shape was the important aspect.

It isn't going to get any easier, so I'd better shape up.

She's in pretty bad shape.

He's in bad shape, but he's alive.

A dark shape moved from the rocks while three more fanned out from the sides.

He took in her shape.

Her voice was soft and as feminine as her shape.

No, we're in good shape.

It is of very irregular shape, has an estimated area of 11,200 sq.

To them, she was an exotic little doll with her huge, gem-hued eyes, black hair, and toned hour-glass shape.

Aside from the chunks missing along the edges from the townspeople dragging it, it looked like it was in good shape.

Although they were the same shape, they were lighter, like comparing plastic beads to glass ones.

Kris pursed his lips, wanting to release the curses coiled on his tongue.  He looked her over.  She'd at least worn sturdy shoes, long pants and shirt.  She was in decent shape, slender and toned from Pilates and the gym.

He glanced at Hannah.  She was in no shape to walk, but she'd have to.

He was in fairly good shape, thanks mostly to weekend biking more than any innate athletic ability.

He was in better shape than half the office, by Mayer's assessment.

That's only one of the details I've got to work on while I'm beating my body into shape over the next two weeks.

Nearly all the riders were young, good looking and in fantastic shape.

Byrne wasn't near in shape to be look­ing into this tour and had no reason to write for information on it.

She finally recognized the shape of the necklace she'd given Darian the day before.

At its center, she thought she saw the dark shape of a man.

Yes, it was a woman's shape, her body clad in dark breeches and boots, her sleeveless tunic held in place beneath a leather belt.

The delicate shape of her slender neck and shoulders drew his eye.

He moved to the bed and lowered her onto her back, pressing her soft shape flat with the full length of his body.

It would take him a while to whip that nose into shape.

From the corner of her eye she saw the long dark shape and screamed.

It is first displayed in the shape of natural and necessary usages consecrated by religion.

The principles of construction, the use of stone and cement are the same as in the "elliptical" kraal; there is no definite plan, the shape and arrangement of the enclosures being determined solely by the natural features of the ground.

Its colours are beautiful, pink and red with a silvery gloss; but the male as it grows old takes on a singular deformity of the head, with a swelling in the shape of a monstrous human-like nose.

The vessels and tracheids are very various in size, shape and structure in different plants.

Sometimes the pad is reduced to a ventral semi-ring or meniscus; it retains its largest almost original shape and size in the second vertebra, the axis or epistropheus, where it forms a separately ossifying piece which connects, and coossifies with, the odontoid process (the centrum of the atlas) and the centrum of the second vertebra.

The clavicles, when united, as usual, form the furcula; mostly the distal median portion is drawn out into a hypocleidium of various shape.

The chief muscular mass, arising from the sternum in the shape of a U, is the pectoralis muscle; its fibres converge into a strong tendon, which is inserted upon the greater tubercle and upper crest of the humerus, which it depresses and slightly rotates forwards during the downstroke.

The fathers of the first six or seven centuries, so far as they agree, may be fairly taken to represent the main stream of Christian tradition and belief during the period when the apostolic teaching took shape in the great creeds and dogmatic decisions of Christendom.

In the Malay Peninsula the blood of a murdered man must be put in a bottle and prayers said over; after seven days of this worship a sound is heard and the operator puts his finger into the bottle for the polong, as the demon is called, to suck; it will fly through the air in the shape of an exceedingly diminutive female figure, and is always preceded by its pet, the pelesit, in the shape of a grasshopper.

By this time he had ceased to devote himself to pure mathematics, and in company with his friends Mersenne and Mydorge was deeply interested in the theory of the refraction of light, and in the practical work of grinding glasses of the best shape suitable for optical instruments.

Its object is a practical one, to determine by scientific considerations the shape of lens best adapted to improve the capabilities of the telescope, which had been invented not long before.

It was the conception of Ezekiel which permanently influenced the citizens of the new Jerusalem, and took final shape in the institutions of Ezra.

The system is hermetically sealed after being pumped full of water, an expansion chamber in the shape of a pipe of larger dimensions being provided at the top of the system above the highest point of circulation.

The shape mostly used is the " saddle " boiler, or some variation upon this very old pattern.

In shape Aegina is triangular, 8 m.

The general shape of the animal is ungainly, owing to a huge hump on the withers, at which point the height is about 3 ft.

The graceful Menura superba, or lyre-bird, with its tail feathers spread in the shape of a lyre, is a very characteristic form.

In 1585 Lord Deputy Sir John Perrot undertook the shiring of Ulster (excluding the counties Antrim and Down, which had already taken shape); and his work, though of little immediate effect owing to the rising of Hugh O'Neill, served as a basis for the division of the territory at the plantation of Ulster in the reign of James I.

The former of these two appendixes plays an especially important part in hepatoscopy, and, according to its shape and peculiarities, furnishes a good or bad omen.

His primary object was to prove that the world was built after the same shape and fashion as the Ark made by the Children of Israel in the desert; but he was able to show that the Malay Peninsula had to be rounded and thereafter a course steered in a northerly direction if China was to be reached.

Ilex, usually a smaller tree, frequently of rather shrub-like appearance, with abundant glossy dark-green leaves, generally ovate in shape and more or less prickly at the margin, but sometimes with the edges entire; the under surface is hoary; the acorns are oblong on short stalks.

The isothermals of mean surface temperature in the South Atlantic are in the lower latitudes of an cn- shape, temperatures being higher on the American than on the African side.

Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock.