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Shape-up

Definition: Shape-up

Shape-up

Noun

1. A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Shape-up

Synonyms by domain: graph shape-up (computing), screen shape-up (computing).

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Crosswords: Shape-up

Specialty definitions using "shape-up": graph shape-upscreen shape-up. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Shape-up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fit Not Fat at 40-Plus: The Shape-Up Plan That Balances Your Hormones, Boosts Your Metabolism, and Fights Female Fat in Your Forties-And Beyond (reference)

  • The Instant Bathing Suit Shape-Up for Men (reference)

  • A Belly Dancer's Slim-Down and Shape-Up Secrets (reference)

  • Shape-Up and Hiring Hall: A Comparison of Hiring Methods and Labor Relations on the New York and Seattle Waterfronts (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Shape-up

"Shape-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shape-up" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Shape-up

Language Translations for "shape-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

形状 (shape). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

munkaerő-válogatás. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

シアン化物 (Caesar, cyanide, schema, scheme, shade, shading, shake, shake hands, shaker, shale oil, share, shared, shareware, sharing, shaver, shaving, shaving cream, shaving foam, shaving lotion, sheik dollar). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シェープアップ , シェイプアップ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

모양 위로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ape-upshay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Shape-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shapeup, upheaps.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-p-p-s-u"

-1 letter: upheap.

-2 letters: ephas, heaps, pause, phase, pupae, pupas, shape.

-3 letters: apes, apse, epha, haes, haps, hasp, heap, hues, paps, pase, pash, peas, pehs, peps, pupa, pups, push, shea, spae, spue, supe, upas.

-4 letters: ape, ash, asp, eau, hae, hap, has, hep, hes, hue, hup, pah, pap, pas, pea, peh, pep, pes, pup, pus, sae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p-p-s-u"
 

+1 letter: shapeups.

 

+3 letters: epiphanous, supersharp, unhappiest.

 

+4 letters: prepurchase, unhappiness.

 

+5 letters: philadelphus, pneumographs, prepurchased, prepurchases, purplehearts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Shape-up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 61 70 65 2D 75 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0061 0070 0065 002D 0075 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374678271158782

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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