Plans for our vacation are beginning to take shape.
Their new home took shape as the weeks went by.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
take shape — {v. phr.} To grow or develop into a certain fixed form. * /Plans for our vacation are beginning to take shape./ * /Their new home took shape as the weeks went by./ Compare: SHAPE UP … Dictionary of American idioms
take shape — {v. phr.} To grow or develop into a certain fixed form. * /Plans for our vacation are beginning to take shape./ * /Their new home took shape as the weeks went by./ Compare: SHAPE UP … Dictionary of American idioms
take shape — index crystallize, develop, evolve Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
take shape — verb To take a definite form. After two hours of discussion, our plans began to take shape. Syn: come into being, form … Wiktionary
take shape — Synonyms and related words: come together, crystallize, draw up, fall in, fall into line, fall into place, fall into rank, form, gather around, materialize, place itself, rally round, range itself, shape, shape up, take form, take its place, take … Moby Thesaurus
To take shape — Shape Shape, n. [OE. shap, schap, AS. sceap in gesceap creation, creature, fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect; akin to OS. giskeppian, OFries. skeppa, D. scheppen, G. schaffen, OHG. scaffan, scepfen, skeffen,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
take shape — phrasal to assume a definite or distinctive form … New Collegiate Dictionary
Shape — Shape, n. [OE. shap, schap, AS. sceap in gesceap creation, creature, fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect; akin to OS. giskeppian, OFries. skeppa, D. scheppen, G. schaffen, OHG. scaffan, scepfen, skeffen, Icer.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shape — I n. form 1) to give shape to 2) to assume a shape; to take shape; to take the shape of (our plans are beginning to take shape; to take the shape of a human being) good physical condition 3) to get (oneself) into shape 4) to keep (oneself) in… … Combinatory dictionary
shape — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 physical outline ADJECTIVE ▪ basic, simple ▪ The children cut the paper into various simple shapes. ▪ overall ▪ characteristic, distinctive … Collocations dictionary
