1.
[syn: shaped, molded, wrought]
2. having the shape of;
- Example: "a square shaped playing field"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shape \Shape\ (sh[=a]p), v. t. [imp. Shaped (sh[=a]pt); p. p.
Shaped or Shapen (sh[=a]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n.
Shaping.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p.
shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan,
sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See Shape, n.]
1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
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I was shapen in iniquity. --Ps. li. 5.
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Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
--Prior.
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2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
as, to shape the course of a vessel.
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To the stream, when neither friends, nor force,
Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.
--Denham.
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Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire,
And shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior.
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3. To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas). [archaic]
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Oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not. --Shak.
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4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
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When shapen was all this conspiracy,
From point to point. --Chaucer.
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Shaping machine. (Mach.) Same as Shaper.
To shape one's self, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]
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I will early shape me therefor. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shaped
adj 1: shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a
pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip";
"the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"
[syn: shaped, molded, wrought]
2: having the shape of; "a square shaped playing field"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "shaped":
arranged, assembled, blueprinted, built, calculated, cast, charted,
constructed, contrived, crafted, created, custom, custom-built,
custom-made, designed, devised, extracted, fabricated, fashioned,
figured, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade,
harvested, homemade, homespun, in the works, machine-made,
machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, methodized,
milled, mined, molded, on the agenda, on the anvil,
on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis,
organized, planned, plotted, prefab, prefabricated, processed,
projected, put together, raised, rationalized, ready-for-wear,
ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined,
scheduled, schematized, set, smelted, strategetic, strategic,
sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, well-built, well-constructed,
well-made, worked out