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Definition of Shaped
1. Adjective. Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort). "The wrought silver bracelet"
2. Adjective. Having the shape of. "A square shaped playing field"
Definition of Shaped
1. Verb. (past of shape) ¹
2. Adjective. Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shaped
1. shape [v] - See also: shape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shaped
Literary usage of Shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Leaves radical, sometimes very narrowly linear, sometimes broadly strap-shaped
or almost oblong: scape simple, leafless: fls. in a terminal raceme, ..."
2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Floral-leaves spear-shaped, longer than the germen, of the same colour with the
... Lip terminating behind in a. bulging boat-shaped nectary, which makes it ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Three or four white flowers grow in the axils of the leaves ; the two exterior
calyx leaves are large and heart-shaped, the others small and narrow ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"By having the bottom and back of the reservoir formed by a nina-reversa shaped
plate, the throat e is not partially closed up, as it would be if the plate ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1906)
"IRREGULAR shaped BLOCKS. — There is a wide variance of practice in the method of
cutting up irregular shaped blocks into lots. One good general rule in such ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Floating timber is cut down and carefully shaped and planed with axe and adze,
... It had arrived ata floor composed of timbers squared and shaped. ..."
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