Shape vs Way - What's the difference?
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The status or condition of something
Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The appearance of something, especially its outline.
A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
Form; formation.
* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :
(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 .’
To give something a shape and definition.
* 1932 , The American Scholar , page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
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, title= (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
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(lb) To do with a place or places.
#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
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#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
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#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
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(lb) Personal interaction.
#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.
*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .
A degree, an amount, a sense.
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: "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary , a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
* (a tradition within Heathenry) To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
(obsolete) To travel.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
* 2006 , , Volume 32, Issues 1-6,
(slang, with positive adjective) Very.
* 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts ,
(informal) Far.
As a noun shape
is the status or condition of something.As a verb shape
is to give something a shape and definition.As a proper noun way is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape .
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contest shape * * in no shape to * * in shape * out of shape * shapeless * shapely * shapesmith * shape-shifter * shape-shifting * shipshape * take shape * the shape of things to come * whip into shapeSee also
*Verb
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. }}
- (Shakespeare)
- Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
Synonyms
* (give shape) form, moldDerived terms
* beshape * foreshape * forshape * misshape * overshape * shape upAnagrams
* * * 1000 English basic wordsway
English
(wikipedia way)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* waye (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Quotations
* (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to goVerb
(en verb)- on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].
Statistics
*Etymology 2
Apheresis of (m).Alternative forms
* (dated)Adverb
(-)- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than she.
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- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- I'm way tired
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
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- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- I used to live way over there.
- The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
