Shape
61shape up — verb a) To improve; to correct ones bad habits or behavior. Hed better shape up soon, or hell fail the class. b) To take shape; to transform into or become. The fog has vanished and its shaping up to b …
62shape up — Synonyms and related words: advance, ameliorate, amend, be so, be such, come along, come on, come out, come through, come together, contrive, crystallize, develop, draw up, fall in, fall into line, fall into place, fall into rank, fare, form,… …
63shape — n 1. form, figure, configuration, figuration, conformation, formation, arrangement, format, organization, pattern; contour, outline, lines, profile, silhouette; cut, style, model, pattern; structure, construction, frame, exterior, outward form. 2 …
64SHAPE — /shayp/, n. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe. Also, Shape. * * * …
65shape-up — /shayp up /, n. 1. an act or instance of shaping up. 2. a former method of hiring longshoremen in which the applicants appeared daily at the docks and a union hiring boss chose those who would be given work. Also, shapeup. [1940 45; n. use of v.… …
66SHAPE — Screening Health Assessment and Preventive Education [program]; Stress, Health and Physical Evaluation * * * shape shāp vt, shaped; shap·ing to modify (behavior) by rewarding changes that tend toward a desired response …
67SHAPE — • X/11 non rectangular Window Shape Extension ab Release 4, Routinensatz für die Erstellung nichtrechteckiger Fenster • Versionsverwaltungs und Konfigurationssystem Erweiterung zu make auf Basis eines Attributierten Filesystems (AFS) • Supreme… …
68shape — [OE] Shape goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *skap ‘form, create’, which also produced German schaffen and Swedish skapa ‘create, make’. ‘Create’ seems to have been a secondary meaning of the base, evolving out of an earlier… …
69SHAPE — [1] X/11 non rectangular Window Shape Extension ab Release 4, Routinensatz für die Erstellung nichtrechteckiger Fenster [2] Versionsverwaltungs und Konfigurationssystem Erweiterung zu make auf Basis eines Attributierten Filesystems (AFS) [3]… …
70shape\ up — v. phr. informal 1. To begin to act or work right; get along satisfactorily. If the new boy doesn t begin to shape up soon, he ll have to leave school. How is the building of the new gym coming along? Fine. It s shaping up very well. 2. To show… …
