• Foreshape

    Origin

    From - + shape.

    Full definition of foreshape

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
      • 1867, The British controversialist and literary magazine - Page 403:Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.
      • 1998, J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79:What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.
      • 2002, Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80:Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord ...

    Noun

    foreshape

    (plural foreshapes)
    1. That which is shaped in advance.
    2. A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
      • 1982, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, Volume 1018, Issue 1 - Page 158:... wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, ...
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