"shape" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: shapes

ETYM Old Eng. shap, schap, as. sceap in gesceap creation, creature, from the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect.
1. Any spatial attribute (especially as defined by outline); SYN. form, configuration, contour.
2. The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; SYN. form.
3. A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; SYN. embodiment.

ETYM See Shape (n.).
1. To cause to shape or form; SYN. form.
2. To make something, usually for a specific function; SYN. form, mold, mould, forge.
Acronym for Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, situated near Mons, Belgium, and the headquarters of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (saceur).

Množina: shape constancies

The tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye).

Množina: shape notes

One of a system of seven notes showing the musical scale degree by the shape of the note head

Množina: shape perceptions

Množina: shape tools

1. To improve to a good or acceptable condition or standard of behavior
2. To bring to a good or acceptable condition or standard of behavior

Množina: shape-shifters

One that seems able to change form or identity at will; especially; a mythical figure that can assume different forms (as of animals)

Množina: shape-ups

A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired.

Shapable.

Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); SYN. molded, wrought.

Množina: shaped charges

An explosive charge the energy of which is focused in one direction so that it usually achieves an armor-penetrating effect.

Množina: shaped charge munitions

Cylindrical charge of explosive which has one end hollowed out into a cone or hemisphere and lined with metal or glass. When the explosive is detonated from the other end, the advancing detonation wave collapses the liner into a jet of molten metal and explosive gas moving at very high velocity. The momentum of this jet will penetrate armor plate or other hard targets.
Although the phenomenon was known in the 1880s it was not until the late 1930s that it was put to any practical use, and from 1940 all combatants developed shaped charge artillery shells, grenades, bombs, and rocket warheads to defeat tanks and reinforced concrete defenses.