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shape
- /ˈʃeɪ̯p/
- [ˈʃeɪ̯p]
Rhymes with -eɪp
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *gaskap
Old English ġesċeap
Proto-Germanic *skēpą
Proto-West Germanic *skāp
Old English sċeap
Middle English schap
English shape
From Middle English schap, 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 (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun.
The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.
noun shapes
- The status or condition of something The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- Form; formation. Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
- A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
- 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. And if I 'm late for supper there 's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there is a little rhubarb and shape.
- A loaded die. A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
- In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb shapes · shaping · shaped · shope
- To create or make. Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
- To give something a shape and definition. Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]
- To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them
- To imagine; to conceive. Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
