Shapeshift vs Morph - What's the difference?
shapeshift | morph |
to change one's shape or form into another through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
(figuratively) to undergo a noticeable change (in character for example), to metamorphosize
(linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
(linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
(biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
(colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
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As verbs the difference between shapeshift and morph
is that shapeshift is to change one's shape or form into another through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings while morph is to change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.As a noun morph is
a physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.shapeshift
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(en noun)Etymology 2
Shortening of metamorphose: to change in shape or form.Verb
(en verb)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”