Word Finder - shapes

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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 evening sun made eerie shapes in the forested landscape.

The shell is likewise most beautiful in its endless shapes and variations.

She watched dark shapes mill and drop as the smoke cleared until they wised up and took refuge in the forest.

Her vision was too blurry for her to see much beyond hazy shapes and colors.

There was a quiet exchange between two of the four dark shapes around her.

There was ice everywhere, a panoply of shapes and forms.

In some obsidians from Teneriffe and Lipari the whole rock consists of them, so closely packed together that they assume polygonal shapes like the cells of a honeycomb.

A sufficient weight of molten glass to form a bottle is gathered and placed in a funnel-shaped vessel which serves as a measure, and gives access to the mould which shapes the outside of the neck.

Stepping quickly onto the patio, she was able to make out the shapes of tall pine trees.

Tattoos of interlinked geometric shapes glowed on his arms before fading.

Fire slid through his body as he contorted and changed shapes.

The muscles of his upper body bulged as he sparred, their changing shapes amplified by a play of shade and sunlight.

One screen was a flash of colors and shapes.

The hooks may be of two or three shapes.

Behind the hut the dark shapes of the two wagons with their horses beside them were discernible, and in the hollow the dying campfire gleamed red.

He thought she would cry but instead she lay back on the grass, arms beneath her head, and after a time, began naming the shapes of the clouds passing across the sky.

Colors, shapes, and sounds blurred around her as she allowed the demon to command her body.

She gazed at it, noting the different colors and shapes that marked the men of Memon and surrounding enemies.

The first consists of cutting up the various fabrics and materials employed into shapes suitable for forming the leaves, petals, &c.; this may be done by scissors, but more often stamps are employed which will cut through a dozen or more thicknesses at one blow.

The veins of the leaves are next impressed by means of a die, and the petals are given their natural rounded forms by goffering irons of various shapes.

Tournai carries on a large trade in carpets (called Brussels), bonnet shapes, corsets and fancy goods generally.

The xylem and phloem are nearly always found in close association in strands of various shapes in all the three main organs of the sporophyteroot, stem and leafand form a connected tissue-system running through the whole body.

The shapes of these ferruginous sandstones are very fantastic - tubes, hollow spheres, plates, &c., being common.

The exit of these organs takes many shapes, of value in systematic work.

On the eastern side are numerous sand hills, formed by the wind into innumerable fantastic shapes, sometimes covered with stunted trees and scanty vegetation, but usually bare and rising to heights of from 150 to 250 ft.

The Pythagorean theory of numbers, Neoplatonic ideas of emanation, the Logos, the personified Wisdom, Gnosticism - these and many other features combine to show the antiquity of tendencies which, clad in other shapes, are already found in the old pre-Christian Oriental religions.

The surface is often remarkably honeycombed, and the rock weathers into pinnacles, pillars and arches of extraordinary shapes.

The variety of their shapes is endless.

The distribution of magnetism and the position of the poles in magnets of other shapes, such as cylindrical or rectangular bars, cannot be specified by any general statement, though approximate determinations may be obtained experimentally in individual cases.'

The Aughrabies or Hundred Falls, as they are called, are divided by ledges, reefs and islets, the last named often assuming fantastic shapes.

The interior of Cutch is studded with hills of considerable elevation, and a range of mountains runs through it from east to west, many of them of the most fantastic shapes, with large isolated masses of rock scattered in all directions.

They were supplied with simpler weapons and adornments, but even so their clothes had hundreds of stamped gold plates and strips of various shapes sewn on to them.

Even so oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and make them bodies like to their own.

These cells of various shapes are seen in large numbers, mainly lying in a direction parallel to the new vessels and capillaries, which all run at right angles to the wound surface.

In this district, too, as has already been remarked, is the finest scenery of the Rhine, a fact due in great part to the grotesque shapes of the quartzose rocks, left denuded of the less durable slate and sandstone.

Numerous patent ropes, some having wires and strands of special shapes, have been introduced with the idea of improving the wearing properties.

The shapes are exceedingly simple, but some of the pieces possess great beauty.

Beads of baked earth, cylindrical and of all shapes, with smooth or polished surfaces, mostly black and red in colour, were chiefly in use.

They are made of bluish, "smoked," or almost black coloured glass, and are of very various shapes, according to the amount of obscuration necessary.

The tree lends itself with peculiar readiness to the skilfu manipulation of- the gardener, and is by him trained into shapes of remarkable grace.

A species of weeping maple (shidare-momiji) dresses itself in peachy-red foliage and is trained into many picturesque shapes, though not without detriment to its longevity.

There are over fifty of these vases, of multiform shapes.

Within the Archean protaxis they are of the most varied shapes, since they represent merely portions of the irregular surface inundated by some morainic dam at the lowest point.

Near the centre of the range there are broader foldings, carved into castle and cathedral shapes.

So too there is no allusion to a human kingship in Joel or in Malachi; the old forms of the Hebrew state were broken, and religious hopes expressed themselves in other shapes.

Fish in an interesting variety of colours and shapes abound in the sea and in artificial ponds along the coasts.'

This second position is a new form of metaphysical idealism, containing the supposition, which lies at the foundation of later German philosophy, that since understanding shapes the objects out of sensations, and since nature, as we know it, consists of such objects, " understanding, though it does not make, shapes nature," as well as our knowledge.

In order to prove this novel conclusion he started afresh from the Cartesian " I think " in the Kantian form of the synthetic unity of apperception acting by a priori categories; but instead of allowing, with all previous metaphysicians, that the Ego passively receives sensations from something different, and not contenting himself with Kant's view that the Ego, by synthetically combining the matter of sensations with a priori forms, partially constructs objects, and therefore Nature as we know it, he boldly asserted that the Ego, in its synthetic unity, entirely constructs things; that its act of spontaneity is not mere synthesis of passive sensations, but construction of sensations into an object within itself; and that therefore understanding makes as well as shapes Nature.

A pair of eyes lie dorsally and behind them is a b closed circlet, often pulled out into various shapes, of modified epidermis, to which an olfactory function has been attributed.

In 1895 the British Aluminium Company was founded to mine bauxite and manufacture alumina in Ireland, to prepare the necessary electrodes at Greenock, to reduce the aluminium by the aid of water-power at the Falls of Foyers, and to refine and work up the metal into marketable shapes at the old Milton factory of the Cowles Syndicate, remodelled to suit modern requirements.