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shape
  1. The status or condition of something
  2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  3. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  4. Form; formation.
  5. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
  6. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
  7. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
  8. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “My finger traces the seven stars, outlining the shape of a ladle.”
      “The evil witch did not appreciate the young man's insults and angrily turned him into the shape of a toad.”
      “He stays in excellent shape through regular exercise and a healthy diet.”
shaper
  1. One who shapes.
  2. A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
  3. (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Router bits and shaper cutters are available in several profiles, making it easy to achieve traditional door frame joinery.”
      “Restoring the heart with the help of a plastic shaper is a new approach to a procedure that has been around for more than 20 years.”
      “Only recently have modern humans come to see fire as part of the landscape, as a shaper and maker of life.”
shaping
shapelessness
  1. (uncountable) The property of being shapeless.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being shapeless.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Her choice of oversized clothing accentuated the shapelessness of her silhouette.”
      “Relaxed into a postmodern shapelessness, however, the poetry lacks the form that gave high modern poets such magnificent bearing.”
      “And after that, the uncared for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust.”
shapeliness
  1. (uncountable) The property of being shapely.
  2. (countable, rare) The result or product of being shapely.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He has personally received a lot of compliments for the shapeliness of his pins in high heels.”
      “The price the guitar pays for its beguiling shapeliness is primarily forfeited air mass.”
      “The washings of light across skin and cloth have helped to give these bodies a real, toned shapeliness, a kind of theatrical panache.”
shapelet
  1. (computing) A stylized shape used in pattern recognition systems to correspond to a real object
shapedness
  1. (parasynthetic) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
shappe
  1. Obsolete spelling of shape
shapelessnesses
shapelinesses
shapelets
  1. plural of shapelet
shapings
shapers
  1. plural of shaper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Living in societies where the clergy were crucial shapers of public opinion, American nationalists adopted the language of millennialism.”
      “On either side, the baked earth is already being formed by shapers into greens and bunkers, and Lewis can barely contain his enthusiasm.”
      “Dye also brought in his own shapers and equipment from other jobs to piece the construction of the course together.”
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