Usually means: Form defined by boundaries, dimensions.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shape: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. SHAPE, shape, shape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. SHAPE, shape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shape: Collins English Dictionary
  5. SHAPE, shape: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shape, shape: Wordnik
  7. shape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shape: Wiktionary
  9. shape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shape: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SHAPE: Dictionary.com
  13. shape (n.), shape (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SHAPE, Shape (Go), Shape (album), Shape (comics), Shape (disambiguation), Shape (magazine), Shape (song), Shape, The Shape (Slipknot song), The Shape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shape: Rhymezone
  19. shape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHAPE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. shape: Free Dictionary
  23. shape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. SHAPE: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shape: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. shape: Global Glossary
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shape: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shape: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHAPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. shape: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shape: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shape, shape: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shape: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. shape: The Folk File
  4. shape: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHAPE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The status or condition of something
noun:  Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
noun:  A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. Though fully descriptive when applied to objects within the geometrically abstract purview of reality as opposed to any scenario more concrete, it is well-understood that the introduction of the third dimension acting upon the physics of the object in the latter introduces the possibility of diminishing the term's descriptive power.
noun:  Form; formation.
noun:  (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
noun:  (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
noun:  (cooking, now rare) A mould for making blancmange, jelly, etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
noun:  (gambling) A loaded die.
noun:  (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
verb:  (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
verb:  To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
verb:  (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
verb:  To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
verb:  (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

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