Definition of shape

"shape" in the noun sense

1. shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline

"he could barely make out their shapes"

2. shape, form

the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance

"geometry is the mathematical science of shape"

3. human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh

alternative names for the body of a human being

"Leonardo studied the human body"

"he has a strong physique"

"the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

4. shape, embodiment

a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept

"a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"

5. form, shape, cast

the visual appearance of something or someone

"the delicate cast of his features"

6. condition, shape

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

7. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, SHAPE

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

8. form, shape, pattern

a perceptual structure

"the composition presents problems for students of musical form"

"a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"

"shape" in the verb sense

1. determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate

shape or influence give direction to

"experience often determines ability"

"mold public opinion"

2. shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge

make something, usually for a specific function

"She molded the rice balls carefully"

"Form cylinders from the dough"

"shape a figure"

"Work the metal into a sword"

3. shape, form

give shape or form to

"shape the dough"

"form the young child's character"

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Quotations for shape

Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood! [ Byron ]

O thou sculptor, painter, poet,
Take this lesson to thy heart;
That is best which lieth nearest;
Shape from that thy work of art. [ Longfellow ]

We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade. [ Whittier ]

I don't know, I'm not in shape yet. [ Yogi Berra , when asked what size cap he wanted ]

That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. [ Prior ]

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. [ James HowelL ]

Can that which is not shape, shape the things that are?
Is chance omnipotent - resolve me why
The meanest shellfish, and the noblest brute,
Transmit their likeness to the years that come? [ Dilnot Sladden ]

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. [ Milton ]

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape. [ Byron ]

Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. [ Dryden ]

There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. [ P. J. Bailey ]

Culture, which has licked all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Expression is of more consequence than shape; it will light up features otherwise heavy. [ Sir C. Bell ]

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. [ Goethe ]

Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, seem to be drawn by love's own hand, by love himself in love. [ Dryden ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. [ Coleridge ]

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, most earnest humor. [ E. P. Whipple ]

The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. [ Judge Haliburton ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]

He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. [ R. D. Hitchcock ]

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation - the realization of an idea by an act of the will. [ John Sterling ]

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

shape in Scrabble®

The word shape is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters shape:

PHASE
(42)
SHAPE
(42)
HEAPS
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word shape

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In shape

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shape in Words With Friends™

The word shape is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters shape:

HEAPS
(54)
SHAPE
(54)
PHASE
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word shape

SHAPE
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(40)
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(36)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In shape

HEAPS
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(54)
PHASE
(54)
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(51)
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(48)
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Word Growth involving shape

Shorter words in shape

pe ape

ha hap

Longer words containing shape

bodyshape bodyshaper bodyshapers

fanshape fanshaped

heartshape heartshaped

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misshape misshaped

misshape misshapen misshapenly

misshape misshapen misshapenness

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