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▪ I. shaping, vbl. n.|ˈʃeɪpɪŋ|
Forms: see the verb.
[f. shape v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of shape v.: an instance of this.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. x. 38 ‘Thah y swore by treuthe ant othe, that God hath shaped me y-nou at luppe’. ‘Mid shupping ne mey hit me ashunche.’ c1440Promp. Parv. 444/1 Schapynge, aptura, formacio. 1484Caxton Fables of Alfonce xiii, [A tayller] whiche surmounted alle the other in shapynge or sewynge. 1568Charteris Pref. to Lyndesay's Wks. (1871) 4* Seing teiching and preiching is na les requisite to thair vocatioun, than schaiping & sewing is to ane tailȝeouris. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 124 We come to the like shaping of the remaining part of the Logg. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iii. 361 Canst thou remember, Maid, what vision first Seem'd more than fancy's shaping? 1815Scott Guy M. xiv, It was the housekeeper who did teach her those unprofitable exercises of hemming and shaping. 1850Tennyson In Mem. ciii. 36 As one would sing the death of war,..And one the shaping of a star.
b. Electronics. The process of modifying the waveform of an electrical signal.
[1902Electr. Rev. 10 Oct. 641/2 On adjusting the inductance and resistance of the shunt, along with the receiving condenser and its shunt, the signals are effectively curbed and shaped at the receiving end without reference to the sending station.] 1924Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers LXII. 192/1 The relation of damping to the reception of wireless signals, viz. its relation to the ‘shaping’ of the received dots and dashes. 1949H. E. Penrose Princ. & Pract. Radar x. 152 A diode may..be employed with the primary object of exercising amplitude control, or..with the primary object of shaping. 1971J. H. Smith Digital Logic iv. 68 The output of the shaping circuit is fed to the Sρ trigger pulse input and a 20 µF capacitor is used to control the pulse length.
c. Radar. Modification of a radar beam so as to obtain a desired spatial configuration.
1945C. S. Pao Shaping Primary Pattern of Horn Feed (M.I.T. Radiation Lab. Rep. No. 655) 2 Such beam shaping cannot usually be achieved by merely changing the geometrical dimensions of the horn. 1975D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xxv. 66 In the horn-fed reflector the shaping can be achieved by either the reflector or the feed.
2. Something shaped, fashioned, or created; a creature, form, shape; a creation (of the mind or fancy).
1340Ayenb. 64 Oþer huanne me zuereþ be þe sseppinges, ase me zayþ; be þe zonne þet ssinþ [etc.]. Ibid. 158 Þe dyeuel sseweþ to þe goste zuiche sseppinges and zuiche figures ase he wyle. 1629Gaule Holy Madn. 136 Oh blot not out the louely Image of God; in faining, and framing so vaine a shaping to your selues! 1794Coleridge Relig. Musings 338 Pale Fear Haunted by ghastlier shapings than surround Moon-blasted Madness when he yells at midnight! 1795― Lines at Shurton Bars 85 How oft, my Love! with shapings sweet I paint the moment, we shall meet! 1892Greener Breech-Loader 86 This shaping of the stock is a very modified form of pistol grip.
3. Sc. (See quot. 1825–80.)
1814W. Nicholson Tales, Peacock 91 Decamp [tailor loon], or by my bloody weapons, I'll cut thy buckram soul to shapin's! 1825–80Jamieson, Shapings, the small bits of cloth that are cut off with the scissors in shaping any piece of dress, S.
4. attrib. and Comb.:
a. simple attrib. as shaping machinery; shaping implement, shaping mould, shaping process (1869 C. Knight Mechanician 77–8).
b. Special comb., as † shaping apparel, clothes Sc., outer garments; † shaping board, a board on which a tailor or shoemaker shapes his materials; shaping engine, an early name for the shaping machine (b); † shaping knife, a shoemakers' knife; shaping machine, (a) a machine for shaping metal pieces and parts of machinery; also attrib.; (b) a machine for shaping ship's blocks; (c) a finishing blocking machine for hats (Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884); shaping-shop, that building in a shipwright's yard in which the steel framework, plates, etc. are shaped.
1564Richmond Wills (Surtees) 170 His *shappinge apparell. A yowlowe sattane dublet and a payre of housse.
1442Court-Roll Gt. Waltham Manor, Essex 11 July, [Proceedings against Joan, widow of William ‘Taillor’, who] asportavit unam tabulam vocat. a *shepping-bord nuper fixam infra tenementum suum. 1483Cath. Angl. 333/1 A Schapynge burde, sculpatorium, serdecelita. 1541Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 176 Item, ane shaiping knyf, ane schawing irne,..ane schaiping buird.
1894Crockett Raiders xxxiii, ‘'Deed, Jen,’ said Lady Grizel,..‘I wad hae gien a' my *shapin' claes to sit there.’
1819Rees Cycl. XXII. B 2/1 [Brunel's machinery for making ships' blocks.] The outside surfaces of the blocks are next formed to their true figure by the three *shaping engines.
c1340Nominale (Skeat) 553 Trenket et subiloun *Shappyngknyf and al. c1440Promp. Parv. 444/1 Schapynge knyfe, scalprum. Schapynge knyfe of sowtarys, ansorium. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 3139 How cal thay ȝou, sir, with the schaiping knife? Ane sowtar, sir. 1541[see shaping board above].
1815Ann. Reg., Chron. (1816) 84 The *shaping machine-room [at the Mint]. a1849Brunel in Beamish Mem. (1862) iii. 38 The shaping machine I conceived while [etc.]. 1867Rep. Paris Univ. Exhib. (1868) IV. 373 The same firm also show a milling, or, as it is frequently termed in England, a shaping machine, in which circular cutters are employed. 1911J. G. Horner in Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 29/2 The shaping machine does for comparatively small pieces that which the planer does for long ones.
1872J. Richards Wood-working Machines 263 *Shaping machinery.
1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 63 The *shaping-shop.
▪ II. shaping, ppl. a.|ˈʃeɪpɪŋ|
[f. shape v. + -ing2.]
That shapes, in the senses of the verb.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xii. (1495) 196 In the male ben vertues formale and shapynge and werkynge and in the female materyal suffringe and passyf. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 133 In like manner, another man whose plastick, shaping, or enkindling powers, are fraught with more of manhood,..may [etc.]. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. vi. (1857) 88 Our creative shaping intellect projected its own fantasies on him. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. v. iv. 409 He had..the artist's shaping hand. |