| 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. | |
| form |
| 1. n. To do with shape.: | |
| 2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | |
| 3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | |
| 4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back. | |
| 5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | |
| 6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | |
| 7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure. | |
| 8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | |
| 9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | |
| 10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | |
| a republican form of government | |
| 11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | |
| a matter of mere form | |
| 12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society. | |
| 13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). | |
| 14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). | |
| 15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | |
| To apply for the position, complete the application form. | |
| 16. n. Level of performance. | |
| The team's form has been poor this year. | |
| The orchestra was on top form this evening. | |
| 17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | |
| participial forms; verb forms | |
| 18. n. The den or home of a hare. | |
| 19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box. | |
| 20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank. | |
| 21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | |
| 22. n. (geometry) A quantic. | |
| 23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement. | |
| 24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | |
| When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. | |
| 25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | |
| Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet. | |
| 26. v. (intransitive) To take shape. | |
| When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy. | |
| 27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble. | |
| The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government. | |
| Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960. | |
| 28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | |
| By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective. | |
| 29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up. | |
| Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders. | |
| 30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | |
| Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality. | |
| 31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form. | |
| 32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) 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 pero | |
