3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] I was shapen in iniquity. --Ps. li. 5. [1913 Webster] Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel. [1913 Webster] To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course. --Denham. [1913 Webster] Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 3. To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas). [archaic] [1913 Webster] Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange. [1913 Webster] When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to point. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}. {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I will early shape me therefor. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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: {molded}, {wrought}] 2: having the shape of; "a square shaped playing field" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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