shape
/ˈʃeɪ̯p/ noun A2- The status or condition of something · The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. · The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.· We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
- A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. · What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- Form; formation. · Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
- A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
- A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- A loaded die.
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“Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
“Is he stuffed?” asked the Lion in surprise, as he watched her pick up the Scarecrow and set him upon his feet, while she patted him into shape again.
“That will not trouble him,” continued the man, “for Oz has a large collection of hearts, of all sizes and shapes.”
“I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”
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