Out of shape

Definition

shape /ʃeÇp/ n ၁။ [C, U] ပံု။ သဏၭာန္။ a round/square/oblong shape ❍ an ashtray in the shape of a hand ❍ people of all shapes and sizes ❍ the odd shape of his nose ❍ This room is rather an awkward shape. ❍ a dress that hasn't got much shape ❍ Many people would like to change their (body) shape. ❍ The garden is round in shape. ၂။ [C] ပံု။ သဏၭာန္။ I could just see two dim shapes in the gloom. ❍ A huge shape loomed up out of the fog. ၃။ [U] (infml) အေနအထား။ အေျခအေန။ She's in good shape (ie fit) after months of training. ❍ What shape is the team in after its defeat? ❍ The illness has left him in rather poor shape. ၄။ [U] အေျခအေန။ သေဘာသဘာဝ။ the future shape of the health service ❍ This decision affected the whole shape of politics in the 1930s. v ၁။ ~ sth (into sth ) ပံုေဖာ္သည္။ ပံုသြင္းသည္။ ပံုေပၚသည္။ ပံုရိွသည္။ shape the clay into a ball ❍ The lake is shaped like an ‘S’. ၂။ ပံုသြင္းသည္။ attitudes shaped by past experiences ❍ These events helped to shape her future career. ၃။ ~ (up ) အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္သည္။ (ျဖစ္ထြန္း၊ တိုးတက္) လာသည္။ Our plans are shaping (up) well (ie giving signs that they will be successful). ❍ How is the new team shaping up? ၄။ (esp passive) (ကိုယ္ႏွင့္အံက်) ပံုသြင္းသည္။ The jacket is shaped (ie becomes narrower) at the waist. ❏ get (oneself) into shape [ IDM ] ေဒါင္ေဒါင္ျမည္ေအာင္ က်န္းမာေရးေလ့က်င့္သည္။ I've been doing aerobics to get myself into shape. ❏ get/knock/lick sth/sb into shape [ IDM ] ပံုစံက်ေအာင္ ေမာင္းသည္။ We need a new manager to get the business into shape again. ❏ give shape to sth [ IDM ] သ႐ုပ္ေပၚေအာင္ရွင္းျပသည္။ I'm having trouble giving shape to my ideas in this essay. ❏ in any shape (or form) [ IDM ] ( infml ) မည္သည့္ ပံုစံ မ်ဳိးႏွင့္ျဖစ္ေစ/မွ်။ I can't eat eggs in any shape or form. ❏ in shape [ IDM ] က်န္းမာေရးေကာင္းသည္။ ေဒါင္ေဒါင္ျမည္ သည္။ You'll never be in shape until you eat less and take more exercise. ❏ in the shape/form of sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသြင္ျဖင့္။ Help arrived in the shape of my next-door neighbour. ❍ I received a nasty surprise in the shape of a letter from the taxman. ❏ out of shape [ IDM ] ၁။ ပံုပ်က္သည္။ This hat has been rather knocked out of shape. ၂။ ပံုပ်က္ပန္းပ်က္ျဖစ္သည္။ I'm very out of shape—what form of exercise do you recommend? ❏ -shaped ( in compounds) (…ပံုဟု အဓိပၸာယ္ရေသာ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ an L-shaped room ❍ have a pear-shaped figure ❍ Rugby is played with an egg-shaped ball. ❏ shapeless adj ပံုပ်က္ပန္းပ်က္။ a shapeless mass/form/dress. shapelessly adv shapelessness n [U] ❏ the shape of things to come [ IDM ] အနာဂတ္ အလား အလာ။ ❏ shape up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တိုးတက္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ If you don't shape up you'll fail your exams. ❏ take shape [ IDM ] ႐ုပ္လံုးေပၚလာသည္။ A plan was beginning to take shape in my mind. ❍ After months of work, the new book is gradually taking shape.

Examples

1. The room forms an L-shape.
2. Trace the shape onto the card and cut it out.
3. [all shapes and sizes] : There were balloons of all shapes and sizes in the sky.
4. [in the shape of] : A flowerbed in the shape of a cross
5. Her curls lost their shape and became frizzy.
6. The front wheel of my bike is bent out of shape.
7. Ghostly shapes loomed out of the fog.
8. The economy is in bad shape.
9. He’s in a lot better shape since he’s changed his diet.
10. It’s part of a plan to change the shape of local government.
11. Marie tried to find the right words to give shape to her ideas.
12. Yes
13. even Heidi and I finally got down on to the floor to throw some shapes at the end.