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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#m1)

2) Shaped is the past form of shape: she shaped the dough into balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x1)
- She cut 12 star-shaped cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x2)
- A garden shaped like a rectangle is 8 by 5 meters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x3)
- How much fence is needed for a triangle-shaped pen? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x4)
- He shaped the sand into a castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x5)
- The pool is kidney-shaped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x6)
- The cake was shaped like a dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x7)
- Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/11/)
- [Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/7/)
- [A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/9/)
- [Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/11/)
- [The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shaped» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaped/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.