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SHAPE

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shape I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (înv.) a crea.

2. a construi, a forma, a da o formă (cu dat.), a modela.

3. a inventa, a născoci; a produce, a da naştere.

4. (şi to shape out) a aşeza, a rândui, a pune în ordine, a aranja.

5. a îndrepta;

to shape one’s course homewards a se îndrepta spre casă, a-şi îndrepta paşii către casă;

(mar.) to shape the course for a îndrepta vasul / cursul spre.

shape I. verb B. intranzitiv

(înv.) a fi potrivit / bun, a fi în stare de ceva.

shape II. substantiv

1. formă, figură, conformaţie, configuraţie;

to come to some shape a ajunge la o formă oarecare;

(sl.) to cut up shapes, to show shapes a juca o festă / un renghi;

to put in shape a forma, a modela, a da o formă;

to put out of shape a deforma, a face să-şi piardă forma;

the hat is out of shape pălăria s-a deformat / şi-a pierdut forma;

to take shape a căpăta formă / contur, a se contura.

2. (fig.) chip, imagine, faţă.

3. model, mostră;

(fam.) the latest shape ultima modă.

4. talie, statură; ţinută, înfăţişare;

to sit well in / to the shape a sta bine, a prinde bine (o haină);

straight to the shape tocmai bine, pe măsură.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She knew no more than I did, where he was going, but she thought he had some project shaped out in his mind.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither the Head nor the Lady, for Oz had taken the shape of a most terrible Beast.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

It’s a month with plenty of variety and room for you to make choices to shape February, and your future, in a way that suits you perfectly.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

They have other hypotheses to explain what exactly is causing the shift in shape and brightness seen in the SPHERE images.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

“Very like Maple Grove indeed! She was quite struck by the likeness! That room was the very shape and size of the morning-room at Maple Grove; her sister's favourite room.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He could now devote himself with sure hand to the larger phases of the thing he shaped; and as he worked, hour after hour, he felt, as never before, the sure and cosmic grasp with which he held life and the affairs of life.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I must confess no object ever disgusted me so much as the sight of her monstrous breast, which I cannot tell what to compare with, so as to give the curious reader an idea of its bulk, shape, and colour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Big, small, broad or narrow, humans inherit their nose shape from their parents, but ultimately, the shape of someone's nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process of adaptation to our local climate.

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, Editura Global Info)

Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Possibly you have seen pictures and read descriptions of the famous old building, so I will confine my account of it to saying that it is built in the shape of an L, the long arm being the more modern portion, and the shorter the ancient nucleus, from which the other had developed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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