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shapers

shapers is the plural of shaper.

Meaning of shaper

Noun

shaper (plural shapers)

  1. (agent) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
    • one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes
    1. (agent) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
    2. (agent) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.

Phrases with shapers

Questions about shapers

What is shapers the plural of?
Shapers is the plural of shaper.

Words near shapers in the dictionary

  1. shapening
  2. shapens
  3. shaper
  4. Shapero
  5. Shaperos
  6. shapers
  7. shapes
  8. shapes for
  9. shapes up
  10. shapes up or ships out
  11. shapeshift

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shapers (page history and authors); shaper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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