Meaning

• 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."

• The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.

  "He cut a square shape out of the cake."

• Form; formation.

• (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.

• In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

Meaning

• To create or make.

  "Earth was shapen by God for God's folk."

• To give something a shape and definition.

  "Shape the dough into a pretzel.   For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl."

• To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

• (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.

• To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

• To imagine; to conceive.