(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.
Snape
Definition:
(v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stewart Snape, of its plant health service, said: "We know there could be OPM [oak processionary moth] in the woodland because we found a nest in it last year.
(2) His Sizewell B inquiry , which occupied Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings for much of the early 1980s, was tortuous and expensive.
(4) There are children like Freddy Snape , who sounds like any other teenager, only less surly; and youngsters like William Thanh , who doesn't communicate with words at all.
(5) The year 2016 took Prince, David Bowie, Professor Snape and most of our sanity.
(6) Patience (After Sebald) will be screened on Friday at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, as part of After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment, a weekend exploration of WG Sebald's work.
(7) "The special rule is a death warrant for the polar bear," said Bill Snape, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity.
(8) Encouraged by this high-altitude success, in 1984 Macartney-Snape, Mortimer and Hall set out on their most ambitious target to date – a new route on the north face of Everest without bottled oxygen.
(9) We’ve talked about a couple of things that will stay private but about what we think might work for us,” Pardew, who has worked extensively with Snape over recent years said.
(10) Parts of Suffolk were identified as being at high risk of flooding on Friday night, including Lowestoft seafront and docks, the north bank of Lake Lothing, Oulton Broad near Mutford Lock, Snape, Iken and surrounding marshland, and Southwold and surrounding marshes.
(11) A new cast will be announced for the tour, which is scheduled to stop off Edinburgh, Bath and Birmingham among other cities this year, but Fiery Angel's Edward Snape has suggested that a West End return could be possible.
(12) On Saxon Square, a pristine quadrangle of shops and cafes at the northern edge of town, I meet Dee and Graham Snape, 68 and 71 respectively, having coffee in the sunshine.
(13) Katie Snape, who books the guests for Sky News, is highly committed to getting more women on screen, and says she often has trouble booking the number she would like.
(14) The basolateral membrane of mouse duodenal enterocytes can be selectively labelled in vitro with 59Fe by incubating intact enterocytes with 59Fe(III)-nitrilotriacetate at 0-4 degrees C. It has been proposed that this labelling represents binding to a site important in the transfer of intracellular Fe to the portal plasma (Snape, S., Simpson, R.J. and Peters, T.J. (1990) Cell Biochem.
(15) The Snape Proms , at the end of the summer, has several gigs that would make a family outing, including a Mary Poppins singalong and a concert by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
(16) Among the survey participants was 17-year-old Laura Bizzey from Snape, in Suffolk, who has minicore myopathy and is studying for her GCSEs.
(17) Freddy Snape embodies the kind of success the organisation believes should be more widespread.
(18) The manager has sought the input of the former England off-spinner and respected sports psychologist Jeremy Snape as part of the preparations, with further motivational presentations planned for the squad before the 4pm kick-off.
(19) I don’t love playing second fiddle to a phone, but you never know what news someone might be awaiting Laura Snapes Laura Snapes, music writer and editor Man is the learning animal and etiquette is a series of protocols that ensure the wheels of society remain greased.
(20) In 1978, as part of a larger ANU team, Macartney-Snape reached the summit of the 7,000m Dunagiri in India, but Hall suffered frostbite and missed out on the summit, later losing a few toes.