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say it: SHAY-ping
shaping is a noun and adjective meaning "any process serving to define the shape of something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
“a formative influence”
“a formative experience”
“the plastic forces of nature”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shaping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.