What's the difference between outwit and shape?

Outwit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
  • (n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
  • (3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
  • (4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
  • (5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
  • (6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
  • (7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
  • (9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
  • (10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
  • (11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
  • (12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
  • (13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
  • (14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
  • (15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
  • (16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
  • (17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
  • (18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
  • (19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
  • (20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.

Shape


Definition:

  • (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
  • (n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
  • (n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
  • (n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
  • (v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • (n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
  • (n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
  • (n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
  • (n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
  • (n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
  • (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
  • (n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
  • (4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
  • (7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
  • (8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
  • (9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
  • (10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
  • (11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
  • (13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
  • (15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
  • (16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
  • (17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
  • (18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
  • (19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
  • (20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.