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.
A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *s...
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Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
To give something a shape and definition.
Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]