0 the particular physical form or appearance of something: --
Cars come in all shapes and sizes.
In the story, Faust is tempted by the Devil, who has taken the shape of a man.
The children made patterns by sticking coloured shapes onto paper.
This T-shirt has been washed so many times that it's lost its shape (= has become loose and lost its form).
These bricks are all different shapes.
1 the way something is organized, or its general character or nature: --
2 condition, or state of health: --
I haven't had any exercise for weeks, and I'm really out of shape (= not in good physical condition).
You're in no shape (= not in a good enough state of health) to go to work today.
"How are you?" "Oh, I'm in great shape."
He bought up businesses that were in bad/poor shape, and then sold them off piece by piece.
3 to decide or influence the form of something, especially a belief or idea, or someone's character: --
4 to make something become a particular shape: --
5 the particular way something looks as a whole: --
Here we will ask whether such differences in the shape of development are also observed in these measures of structural complexity.
The structural context, such as the layout of the building, also shaped social interaction.
Most of these studies emphasize the correspondence between an object and a hand shape.
These could range from thickness and shape to qualities such as heat and weight resistance.
The first three chapters develop this interdisciplinary approach by shaping a theoretical framework to guide the five case studies in subsequent chapters.
But which institutional features of the two systems shape the incentives relevant for coalition formation?
The shape of the free surfaces for the solutions joined in this way is shown in figure 3, with the matching points indicated.
In fact, it is interesting to note that any closed region with arbitrary shape reduces to a point as the region reduces to zero.
