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shaper

[ shey-per ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that shapes.
  2. a machine tool for forming flat surfaces, consisting of a frame, usually horizontal, on which the work is held while a cutting tool moves along it with a reciprocating motion. Compare planer ( def 2 ).
  3. (in woodworking) a stationary power tool driving a vertical spindle to which cutters are locked, used in joinery and for forming decorative edges.


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Origin of shaper1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; shape, -er 1
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"Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy," he said.

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In Cohen-Solal’s account, French xenophobia, primal and entrenched, was a major shaper of Picasso’s biography, and it’s her tracing of it that makes her book distinctive.

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“They are the shapers of their own character. They don’t get dictated what it should be. They fill in what it should be for them.”

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Avoiding tight clothes including belts and shapers also can improve how you feel.

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Urgent and personal, “Complicities” solidifies D’Erasmo’s reputation not just as a skilled shaper of disparate fictional worlds and beings, but as a fierce investigator of how it may feel to live inside them.

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