0 present participle of shape --
1 to decide or influence the form of something, especially a belief or idea, or someone's character: --
2 to make something become a particular shape: --
This represented a significant departure from the activism he had shown earlier in shaping the nation's external relations.
The second way through which social policy may affect sub-state nationalism is by shaping nationalist mobilization.
Instead, distinct contracting cultures were simultaneously shaping over time the social care industry, the precise product provided, and local authority contracting behaviour.
The two constraints stipulate the distinct roles of the substrate and lexical-source languages in shaping the grammar of the contact language.
Species-typical vocalizations such as crying and laughing are under minimal conscious control and are poor candidates for behavioral shaping.
The process of automation triggered a sequence of problems and solutions that proved crucial in shaping the design of banking services.
It affects the willingness to discuss by shaping one's anticipation of achieving deliberative uptake.
Computer-based dose optimisation both volumetr ic and geometric are available along with interactive graphical dose shaping.