shaped

«shaped» in Mova's school dictionary: having a certain form, like a heart-shaped cookie — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, verb form (shaped; from shape)

meaning for a pupil

1) Shaped means having a certain form, like a heart-shaped cookie. tree →

2) Shaped is the past form of shape: she shaped the dough into balls. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: describes a thing by its shape and may lead to its sides or area: «a field shaped like a square». Everyday: star-shaped, heart-shaped, L-shaped room, pear-shaped (gone wrong, informal).

examples

• A field is shaped like a square with sides of 30 m. tree →
• She cut 12 star-shaped cookies. tree →
• A garden shaped like a rectangle is 8 by 5 meters. tree →
• How much fence is needed for a triangle-shaped pen? tree →
• He shaped the sand into a castle. tree →
• The pool is kidney-shaped. tree →
• The cake was shaped like a dinosaur. tree →
• Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain. tree →

note

Often joined with a hyphen: heart-shaped. Tells which shape rule to use (square: 4 equal sides, perimeter = 4 × side). Trap: «shaped like» means having that form, not being that thing.

In the corpora

• An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.
• Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.
• A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
• Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.
• The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shaped» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.