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shape
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?p, IPA(key): /?e?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Etymology
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian skapa (“create”).
Noun
shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)
- 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.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- Form; formation.
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- ‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape.’
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:
- It was brawn and shape for high tea.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:shape
Hyponyms
- contest shape
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Forms and shapes
Verb
shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen)
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
Synonyms
- (give shape): form, mold
Derived terms
- beshape
- foreshape
- forshape
- misshape
- overshape
- shape up
Translations
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- shape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shape at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, phase
shape From the web:
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become
English
Etymology
A compound of the sources of be- and come.From Middle English becomen, bicumen, from Old English becuman (“to come (to), approach, arrive, enter, meet with, fall in with; happen, befall; befit”), from Proto-Germanic *bikweman? (“to come around, come about, come across, come by”), equivalent to be- (“about, around”) +? come. Cognate with Scots becum (“to come, arrive, reach a destination”), North Frisian bekommen, bykommen (“to come by, obtain, receive”), West Frisian bikomme (“to come by, obtain, receive”), Dutch bekomen (“to come by, obtain, receive”), German bekommen (“to get, receive, obtain”), Swedish bekomma (“to receive, concern”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (biqiman, “to come upon one, befall”). Sense of "befit, suit" due to influence from Middle English cweme, icweme, see queem.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??k?m/, /b??k?m/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /b??k?m/, /b??k?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /b??k?m/, /bi?k?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
- Hyphenation: be?come
Verb
become (third-person singular simple present becomes, present participle becoming, simple past became, past participle become or (rare, dialectal) becomen)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place). [9th–18th c.]
- (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise. [from 12th c.]
- (copulative) begin to be; turn into. [from 12th c.]
- Synonyms: get, turn, go
- (transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene ii:
- Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant,
- And bring thee forth brave brood.
- 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966,[1]
- He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
- 1930, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, 2010, p.7:
- His ordination […] enabled him to be independent of his parents, and to afford a manner of living which became his rank rather than his calling.
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene ii:
- (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). [from 14th c.]
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb call had the form becomest, and had becamest for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form becometh was used.
Synonyms
- (to be suitable for): befit, suit
Translations
References
- become in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- become in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “become”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
become From the web:
- what becomes of the broken hearted
- what becomes of the broken hearted lyrics
- what becomes wetter the more it dries
- what becomes legal at 18
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