Word Meaning

shape definition and meaning

n. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
n. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
n. To image; to conceive; to body forth.
n. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
v. i. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
n. Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
n. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
n. A model; a pattern; a mold.
n. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
n. Dress for disguise; guise.
n. A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
n. A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

Crossword clues for shape

- Be quiet and copy outline
- Build mould to form semblance of outline
- Circle or square
- Condition
- configures
- Fit, in good ...
- Form
- Heaps about mould
- Mould or pattern
- Outline of some churlish apes
- Outline of some foolish apes
- Triangle or circle
- Unfit, out of ...