Shape

1. n. A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
2. n. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
3. n. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
4. n. To image; to conceive; to body forth.
5. n. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
6. v. i. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
7. 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.
8. n. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
9. n. A model; a pattern; a mold.
10. n. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
11. 1n. 1 A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
12. 1n. 1 To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.