(intransitive, often figuratively) To take a definite form.

A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of psalmody associated with it. The heads of the notes are of various shapes, not always round.

(mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A person or other being capable of changing their physical form.

plural of shape-shifter

(intransitive, idiomatic) To improve; to correct one's bad habits or behavior. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To take shape; to transform into or become.

(bodybuilding) A physique made ready for a bodybuilding contest, with minimal body fat and maximum muscle volume.

Having a shape or cross-section like the cross-section of a (typical western) pear. / (slang) Wrong, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.

Shaped like the letter L or its mirror image

Having a shape or cross-section like the cross-section of a bell.

tapering at each end