(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.
Shapeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an earlier demonstration binocular shapes were produced from monocularly shapeless, random-dot stereo images.
(2) A week ago, the plane was a shapeless lump of metal.
(3) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(4) Around its foot is precisely the sort of shapeless, windswept, nothing place that we were supposed to have learned not to do in the 1970s.
(5) Early on in the evolution of cinema sound a number of theorists recognised this power and said the ability to manipulate sound creatively will redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise.
(6) In cells where no persistent nucleoli as such were noted, nucleolar material was observed to attach to the chromosomes in shapeless masses which moved with the chromosomes during anaphase.
(7) They are political, argues its founder, Deborah Coughlin, because they dress in shapeless cloaks so the audience can't judge them by their bodies, because they support each other, and because they sing about women's real lives, rather than fantasy.
(8) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
(9) Anxiety in this mode consists of an unspeakable terror of the dissolution of boundedness resulting in feelings of leaking, falling or dissolving into endless, shapeless space.
(10) Not imposing and shapeless, not heavy to the point of having drooped, but, rather, something with a bit of shape … A real chest is round, comfortable, welcoming, and one should be able to put one’s nose into the middle with jubilation.” The weekly L’Express complained under the headline “The macho-erotic thoughts of Edouard Philippe’s hero” .
(11) Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.
(12) Studies of the effects of the anthelminthic agent albendazole on the tissues of D. latum in vivo showed large shapeless protrusions of the outer tegumental cytoplasm on the surface of strobila, the mitochondrial degeneration in the tegumental cells and their nucleolar material segregation.
(13) Touré had his moments, and Jesús Navas offered flashes of quality down the flank, but too much of the visitors’ approach was shapeless, lacking composure in the face of QPR’s bite and energy.
(14) Yet amid much slapdash, shapeless, helter-skelter stuff – for prolonged spells it seemed more like a Championship game – Fabricio Coloccini should have given Newcastle an early lead.
(15) Unlike 80s fashion, there was no sense of fun in it, just a jaded, "I'm too cool to try, and that's why I'm wearing my shapeless slip dress over my bad jeans".
(16) All a bit shapeless, but there's less than 30 seconds gone, so there's plenty of time.
(17) Instead, the game meandered along rather shapelessly, not helped by a raft of substitutions and ending with a half-hearted attempt at the Mexican wave and some of the fans behind one goal amusing themselves by batting around a beach ball.
(18) A science-fiction film released in 1958 depicts how the "Blob", a giant shapeless amoeba-like alien, takes over a small American town and defies every attempt to destroy it .
(19) Does anyone know where I can buy a shapeless hemp shift dress?
(20) Whether considering the meagre tally of 10 points from 12 games since Manchester City were beaten here in September, or assessing this shapeless performance against a team who started in the bottom three and set up to avoid defeat, the Villa manager has to stem a spiral that is dragging his team into another battle against relegation.