shapes
Because it is a word with a single syllable, shapes is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofshapes
- The status or condition of something
Example: "The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book."
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
Example: "The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in."
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
Example: "He cut a square shape out of the cake."
- Form; formation.
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
- To create or make.
Example: "Earth was shapen by God for God's folk."
- To give something a shape and definition.
Example: "Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl."
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- To imagine; to conceive.
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