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[ adjective ] shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
Examples "a shaped handgrip" "the molded steel plates" "the wrought silver bracelet" Used in print (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)According_to his own testimony , he never actually saw things as shaped but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more_or_less indefinite size ; at their edges they slipped pretty_much out_of_focus altogether . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)It was that oddly shaped space at the very top of the house , where ceiling heights had to accommodate themselves to the varying angles of roof slope . Related terms |
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