Noun

(en noun)

The status or condition of something

The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.

Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.

We exercise to keep in good physical shape .

The appearance of something, especially its outline.

He cut a square shape out of the cake.

A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.

What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?

Form; formation.

* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :

What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?

(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.

*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 74:

*:‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape .’

Noun

(en noun)

A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

* , chapter=13

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}

A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.

A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.

(figurative)

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}

(automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.

(computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms . Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

(politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.

(travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=A “moving platform'” scheme

(obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

(Francis Bacon)

(nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.

A flat expanse of rock often as a result of wave erosion.