OTHER WORDS FOR shape
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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
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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