shape

English

/ʃeɪp/

noun
Definitions
  • The status or condition of something
  • Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
  • Form; formation.
  • (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
  • (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
  • (cookery) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
  • (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English shap inherited from Old English ġesceap (creature, form, condition, created being, dispensation, sex, fate, gender, shape, creation, genitalia) inherited from Proto-Germanic *ga- (co-, together, with, collective and associative prefix) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (beat, cut, strike, split, dig, cover, scrape, hack) inherited from Middle English shapen inherited from Old English scieppan (form, arrange, adjudge, shape, assign, make, order, destine, create) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (create, shape, make).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*skapjaną

Gloss

create, shape, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

形

Emoji

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