Foreshape
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Foreshape is a verb meaning (transitive) To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
Meaning
(transitive) To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
More Meanings
- A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
Example Sentences
Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […]
Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.
What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.
[...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]
Word Forms
- foreshapes
- foreshaping
- foreshaped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overshape, forshape, immould, turn, transhape, remould.
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