Shape

Quick meaning: Shape is a noun meaning The status or condition of something.

Meaning

The status or condition of something.

More Meanings

1. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
2. A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
3. Form; formation.
4. (geometry) A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
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 blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.

Example Sentences

Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.

We exercise to keep in good physical shape.

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

What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?

Word Forms

• shapes
• shaping
• shaped
• shapen
• shapest
• shapedst
• shapeth

Synonyms for shape

Depending on context, synonyms include form, Gestalt, mold, shapen, cast, soma.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include form, determine, pattern, embodiment, influence, frame.

Related Dictionary Tools