"shaper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/ Forms: shapers [plural]
enPR: shāʹpər Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English shapper, shapere, schapare, scaper, scheppere, schuppere, alteration (perhaps due to Old Norse skaperi, skapari) of Old English sċyppend, sċieppend (“shaper; maker; creator”), equivalent to shape + -er. Cognate with Dutch schepper, German Schöpfer, Danish skaber, Swedish skapare, Icelandic skapari. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|shapper}} Middle English shapper, {{cog|non|skaperi}} Old Norse skaperi, {{der|en|ang|sċyppend}} Old English sċyppend, {{suffix|en|shape|er}} shape + -er, {{cog|nl|schepper}} Dutch schepper, {{cog|de|Schöpfer}} German Schöpfer, {{cog|da|skaber}} Danish skaber, {{cog|sv|skapare}} Swedish skapare, {{cog|is|skapari}} Icelandic skapari Head templates: {{en-noun}} shaper (plural shapers)
  1. (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
    (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
    Tags: agent Categories (topical): Surfing
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  2. (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
    (machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
    Tags: agent Categories (topical): Machining Translations (A machine tool): obrážečka [feminine] (Czech), schaafbank [common-gender] (Dutch), étau-limeur [masculine] (French), Stoßmaschine [feminine] (German), limatrice [feminine] (Italian), strugarka [feminine] (Polish), limadora [feminine] (Spanish), kipphyvel (Swedish), bordsfräs [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shaper-en-noun-en:agent_that_shapes__something_1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -er, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 45 16 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 35 38 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 38 37 24 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 35 45 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 47 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 43 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 41 36 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 41 37 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 42 36 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 38 42 20 Topics: engineering, machining, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'A machine tool': 0 100 0
  3. (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively. Tags: agent
    Sense id: en-shaper-en-noun-en:agent_that_shapes__something_1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -er, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 45 16 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 35 38 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 38 37 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 43 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 41 36 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 41 37 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 42 36 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 38 42 20
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: body shaper, partial shaper Related terms: glasser, shaping Coordinate_terms: slotter, others at machine tool § Hyponyms

Inflected forms

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    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Machining"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.",
        "A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shapes",
          "shape#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "machining",
          "machining#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "machine tool",
          "machine tool"
        ],
        [
          "milling machine",
          "milling machine#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.",
        "(machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:agent that shapes (something)",
        "en:machine tool with linear single-point cutting"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "agent"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "machining",
        "mechanical-engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 98:",
          "text": "Considered merely as works of art, these products of the Greek imagination [i.e., Greek tragedies] satisfy our highest conception of form. […] The secret of those old shapers died with them; their wand is broken, their book sunk deeper than ever plummet sounded.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shapes",
          "shape#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:agent that shapes (something)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "agent"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "shāʹpər"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪpə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obrážečka"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "schaafbank"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "étau-limeur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Stoßmaschine"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "limatrice"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "strugarka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "limadora"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "word": "kipphyvel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bordsfräs"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "shaper"
  ],
  "word": "shaper"
}

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