Meaning

6 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare)To create or make.

    Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.

    1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope.

    make something, usually for a specific function

  2. (transitive)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.

    formen

    формува́тиformuváty, сформува́тиsformuváty

    give shape or form to

  3. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

  4. (person)To give influence to.

    shape or influence; give direction to

  5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

  6. (obsolete)To imagine; to conceive.

Examples

824 sentences

  1. I was in pretty bad shape.

    Я був у досить поганій формі. — deniko

    ruЯ был в довольно плохой форме. — marafon

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  2. Tom is in very bad shape.

    Том у дуже поганій формі. — deniko

    deTom ist in sehr schlechter Verfassung. — wolfgangth

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  3. Tom is in very good shape.

    Том у дуже гарній формі. — Anjy

    ruТом в очень хорошей форме. — marafon

    deTom ist sehr gut in Form. — wolfgangth

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  4. Tom is in really good shape.

    Том у дуже хорошій формі. — deniko

    deTom ist wirklich in guter Form. — mramosch

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  5. Tom is in pretty good shape.

    Том знаходиться у досить непоганій формі. — deniko

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to give something a [[shape]]:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to give something a [[shape]]:

Origin

From Middle English schap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being,

From Middle English schap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”).

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Forms

shapes, shaping, shaped, shaped
Base formshape · to shape
3rd person singularshapes
Present participleshaping
Past simpleshaped
Past participleshaped

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshape
he, she, itshapes

Past simpleLesson

all personsshaped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shaped
he, she, ithas shaped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shape

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

9 synonyms
give shape:formB1moldC2shapen
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words
Relatedshapingshaper
Derivedbeshapeforeshapeforshapemisshapeoutshapeovershapepreshapereshapeshapableshapeabilityshape forshape up

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in good shape
  • in bad shape
  • bad shape
  • out of shape
  • good shape
  • good enough shape
  • in great shape
  • enough shape to
  • better better shape
  • get into shape
  • of shape to
  • back into shape

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shankshantyshapelessshapeshiftshard

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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