Shape vs. Form
Shapenoun
The status or condition of something
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Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
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The appearance of something, especially its outline.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Formnoun
To do with shape.
Formnoun
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
Formnoun
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
Formnoun
Characteristics not involving atomic components. en
Formnoun
(dated) A long bench with no back.
Formnoun
(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
Formnoun
(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Formnoun
(social) To do with structure or procedure.
Formnoun
An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
Formnoun
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
Formnoun
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
Formnoun
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
Formnoun
(archaic) A class or rank in society.
Formnoun
(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
Formnoun
A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
Formnoun
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
Formnoun
Level of performance.
Formnoun
(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Formnoun
The den or home of a hare.
Formnoun
A window or dialogue box.
Formnoun
Essentials
Formnoun
(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
Formnoun
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Formnoun
(geometry) A quantic.
Formnoun
A specific way of performing a movement.
Formverb
(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
Formverb
(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Formverb
(intransitive) To take shape.
Formverb
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
Formverb
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
Formverb
(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Formverb
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Formverb
To provide (a hare) with a form.
Formverb
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
Formnoun
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
Formnoun
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
Formnoun
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
Formnoun
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Formnoun
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
Formnoun
A shape; an image; a phantom.
Formnoun
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
Formnoun
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
Formnoun
The seat or bed of a hare.
Formnoun
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Formnoun
The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.
Formnoun
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
Formnoun
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Formnoun
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
Formnoun
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
Formnoun
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
Formverb
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
Formverb
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
Formverb
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; - said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
Formverb
To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
Formverb
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
Formverb
To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
Formverb
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
Formverb
To run to a form, as a hare.
Formnoun
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;
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a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Formnoun
a perceptual structure;
Formnoun
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
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alternative names for the body of a human being;
Formnoun
the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;
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the visual appearance of something or someone;
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(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;
Formnoun
a printed document with spaces in which to write;
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(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
Formnoun
an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;
Formnoun
a particular mode in which something is manifested;
Formnoun
a body of students who are taught together;
Formnoun
an ability to perform well;
Formnoun
a life-size dummy used to display clothes
Formnoun
a mold for setting concrete;
Formverb
to compose or represent:
Formverb
create (as an entity);
Formverb
develop into a distinctive entity;
Formverb
give a shape or form to;
Formverb
make something, usually for a specific function;
Formverb
establish or impress firmly in the mind;
Formverb
give shape to;
