Shape vs. Morphology
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.
Morphologynoun
(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
Morphologynoun
(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
Morphologynoun
(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
Morphologynoun
(geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
Morphologynoun
(math) Mathematical morphology.
Morphologynoun
(countable) The form and structure of something.
Morphologynoun
(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
Morphologynoun
That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.
Morphologynoun
The form and structure of an organism.
Morphologynoun
The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.
Morphologynoun
The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.
Morphologynoun
the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
Morphologynoun
studies of the rules for forming admissible words
Morphologynoun
the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Morphologynoun
the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
Morphologynoun
the study of the forms of things.
Morphologynoun
the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.
Morphologynoun
the study of the forms of words, in particular inflected forms
Morphologynoun
a particular form, shape, or structure.
