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Idioms about shape
take shape, to assume a fixed form; become definite: The house is beginning to take shape.
Origin of shape
First recorded before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English gesceapu (plural); replacing dialectal shap, Middle English; Old English gesceap (singular); cognate with Old Norse skap “state, mood”; (verb) Middle English; Old English sceapen (past participle); replacing Middle English sheppe, shippe, Old English sceppan, scyppan; cognate with German schaffen, Old Norse skepja, Gothic -skapjan “to make”
synonym study for shape
1. See form.
OTHER WORDS FROM shape
Words nearby shape
shanty, shantytown, Shanxi, Shaoxing, Shaoyang, shape, shaped, shaped charge, shapeless, shapely, shapen
Other definitions for shape (2 of 2)
SHAPE
or Shape
[ sheyp ]
/ ʃeɪp /
noun
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
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British Dictionary definitions for shape (1 of 2)
shape
/ (ʃeɪp) /
noun
verb
Derived forms of shape
shapable or shapeable, adjectiveshaper, nounWord Origin for shape
Old English gesceap, literally: that which is created, from scieppan to create; related to sceap sexual organs, Old Norse skap destiny, Old High German scaf form
British Dictionary definitions for shape (2 of 2)
SHAPE
/ (ʃeɪp) /
n acronym for
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
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