(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.
Unwieldy
Definition:
(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(2) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(3) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(4) Its current crisis stems in part from it being too big, too unwieldy to control.
(5) Characterised by large, unwieldy, centralised organisations, the anti-war movement became complacent, overly reliant on rallies and petitions.
(6) The ultrasonic urologic probe is an unwieldy instrument for cardiac surgery, and we suggest the manufacture of a new probe for clinical use in our specialty.
(7) The results bring an end to an unwieldy four-year "grand coalition" between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD).
(8) Other milestones have already been reached: a draft text is in preparation , much slimmed down from previous unwieldy versions, and evidence has been produced that current pledges from rich countries to provide financial assistance to the developing world will reach required levels by 2020.
(9) Although that campaign had succeeded, its unwieldy federal model of multi-party cooperation was judged dysfunctional.
(10) Jeronimo said it would need to be priced close to its rivals, but the Apple brand would draw customers who either could not afford the larger iPad or considered it too unwieldy.
(11) The enormity of the denominator in contraceptive steroid usage is so unwieldy that mechanisms to measure accurately the difference in an extremely small numerator are still plaguing the epidemiologist, who at best can supply only estimates.
(12) Echoing fears among many MPs that Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King and his successors will control an unwieldy empire of regulatory committees that could challenge the Treasury's democratic mandate, Barker criticised government plans to create a financial policy committee (FPC) alongside the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC), which sets interest rates.
(13) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.
(14) Like many lymphocyte-monocyte products, this activity has been difficult to purify because of its low abundance in activated leukocyte cultures and the unwieldy bioassay required to detect biological activity.
(15) Sometimes he overcomplicates his work, to a point where the result is unwieldy.
(16) At the level of first contact, a primary health care centre, information management is an unwieldy task, therefore health information systems are reported to be inadequate and weak.
(17) The relevance of continuing education to clinical staff will be discussed in relation to the change in the content of nursing theory--from the unwieldy 'certainty-based' medical model, to a more flexible, thus perhaps 'uncertainty-based' medical model.
(18) While at the outset it can seem unwieldy, general consensus seems to be that it can work more effectively in challenging times.
(19) As Peter Kendall, then president of the National Farmers Union, put it to me at the time: while Clarke’s heart was clearly in the right place, “the company is an unwieldy tanker to turn around.
(20) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.