Shape vs. Contour

Shapenoun

The status or condition of something

Shapenoun

Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

Shapenoun

The appearance of something, especially its outline.

Shapenoun

Form; formation.

Shapenoun

(iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

Shapenoun

(iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

Shapenoun

A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.

Shapenoun

(programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

Shapeverb

To create or make.

Shapeverb

(transitive) To give something a shape and definition.

Shapeverb

To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

Shapeverb

(of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.

Shapeverb

To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

Shapeverb

(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

Shapeverb

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

Shapeverb

To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.

Shapeverb

To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas).

Shapeverb

To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.

Shapeverb

To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

Shapenoun

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.

Shapenoun

That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.

Shapenoun

A model; a pattern; a mold.

Shapenoun

Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.

Shapenoun

Dress for disguise; guise.

Shapenoun

A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

Shapenoun

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);

Shapenoun

the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;

Shapenoun

alternative names for the body of a human being;

Shapenoun

a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept;

Shapenoun

the visual appearance of something or someone;

Shapenoun

the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')

Shapenoun

the supremem headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe

Shapenoun

a perceptual structure;

Shapeverb

shape or influence; give direction to;

Shapeverb

make something, usually for a specific function;

Shapeverb

give a shape or form to;

Shape

A shape or figure is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material type. A plane shape, two-dimensional shape, or 2D shape (plane figure, two-dimensional figure, or 2D figure) is constrained to lie on a plane, in contrast to solid figures.

Contournoun

An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.

Contournoun

A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.

Contournoun

(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.

Contourverb

(transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.

Contourverb

(transitive) To mark with contour lines.

Contournoun

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

Contournoun

The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

Contournoun

a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height

Contournoun

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);

Contournoun

a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure;

Contourverb

form the contours of