shape
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Is shape a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.countableuncountable
2. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.countableuncountable
3. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.Examples: "And if I 'm late for supper there 's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there is a little rhubarb and shape."; "It was brawn and shape for high tea."archaiccountableuncountable
4. (gambling) A loaded die.Examples: "A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning."countableuncountable
5. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.Examples: "Earth was shapen by God for God's folk."; "1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope."Northern-EnglandScotlandrare
2. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.Examples: "Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl."; "The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments."; "Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food."transitive
3. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.person
4. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.Examples: "Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary