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| shaping | |
| 1. n. The action of the verb to shape. |  |
| 2. n. (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning. | |
| shape | |
| 1. n. The status or condition of something | |
| The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book. | |
| 2. n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. | |
| The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in. | |
| We exercise to keep in good physical shape. | |
| 3. n. The appearance of something, especially its outline. | |
| He cut a square shape out of the cake. | |
| What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds? | |
| 4. n. Form; formation. | |
| 5. n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. | |
| 6. n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted. | |
| 7. n. (cookery, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape. | |
| 8. n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type. | |
| 9. v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make. | |
| Earth was shapen by God for God's folk. | |
| 10. v. To give something a shape and definition. | |
| Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl. | |
| 11. v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. | |
| 12. v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to. | |
| 13. v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. | |
| 14. v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive. | |
