单词 | shaped |
释义 | shapedadj. 1. In senses of the verb. Often with prefixed adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced wroughtOE wroughtOE producta1398 createa1425 generate?a1425 gendered1502 naturate1509 shaped1540 generated1552 ingeneratea1572 concepted1662 the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having (specific) shape proportionedc1390 figured?a1400 shapena1400 featuredc1500 proportionated1612 figurated1642 shaped1720 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > shape or form shapena1400 shaped1720 the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having definite shape shapen1483 figurate1626 figured1626 shapely1827 shaped1845 crystallized1847 morphous1852 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii. sig. Pivv That hurtful or noysom yll which..did cast away our first formed or shaped fathers. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. xiii. 340 Caius Julius Cæsar..was the best shap'd Man of his Time. 1845 M. J. Howell Hand-bk. Dress-making 53 For cambrics, or muslins, this shaped body is most eligible. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xv. 451 That fair ship began to steer steadily on a shaped course. 1862 H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 18 Shaped verses are instances of the most egregious folly. It was the fashion among the minor poets to compose poems formed in the shape of every conceivable thing. 1863 Q. Rev. 114 387 Shaped bones and chipped flints lay in the same deposit. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 33/2 The curiously shaped rhinoceros beetle. 2. In parasynthetic derivatives of adjective + shape noun, as many-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) ii. pr. i. 20 I vnderstand the many shaped [L. multiformes] deceites of her wonder. 1866 Field 6 Jan. 10/2 The first-named..being as fine a shaped hound as ever I saw. Compounds shaped charge n. an explosive charge having a cavity which causes the blast to be concentrated into a small area. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > quantity used in blasting operation > charge shot1849 sumper1881 raker1883 shaped charge1948 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Jan. 1/3 A light but potent recoilless gun of the new type, using a ‘shaped charge’ like that of the bazooka. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) i. ii. 14 What the saboteur used, they decided, was a ‘shaped charge’—a cone of dynamite which, when detonated, had a forward velocity similar to that of a bullet. shaped note n. = shape-note n. at shape n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > character in notation > note > shaped note patent note1822 shaped note1889 shape-note1932 1889 F. H. Gilson Hist. Shaped or Character Notes 4 The great variety of systems embodying the same idea,—that is, a separate shape for each syllable,—came to be so confusing that the majority of the advocates of shaped notes finally agreed to adopt one system. 1945 Chicago Tribune 18 Nov. vii. 1/5 We sang from song books printed with old time shaped notes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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