Crossword clues for shaper
shaper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaper \Shap"er\, n.
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One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
The secret of those old shapers died with them.
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That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically;
(Metal Working) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.
(Wood Working) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who shapes. 2 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 machine. 3 (context surfing English) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
WordNet
n. a person who makes things [syn: maker]
a machine tool for shaping metal or wood [syn: shaping machine]
Wikipedia
A shaper is a type of machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to machine a linear toolpath. Its cut is analogous to that of a lathe, except that it is (archetypally) linear instead of helical.
A wood shaper is a similar woodworking tool, typically with a powered cutting head and manually fed workpiece, usually known simply as a shaper in North America and spindle moulder in the UK.
A metalworking shaper is somewhat analogous to a metalworking planer, with the cutter riding a ram that moves relative to a stationary workpiece, rather than the workpiece moving beneath the cutter. The ram is typically actuated by a mechanical crank inside the column, though hydraulically actuated shapers are increasingly used. Adding axes of motion to a shaper can yield helical toolpaths, as also done in helical planing.
Shaper may refer to:
- Shaper, a metalworking tool
- Wood shaper, a woodworking tool
- Shaper (surfboard), a person who makes surfboards
- Waveshaper, an audio process
- Shaper, one of the roles in the Belbin Team Role Inventories
Usage examples of "shaper".
The first mind seeds had been translated from DNA nine centuries before, when the polis founders had invented the Shaper programming language to re-create the essential processes of neuroembryology in software.
Executor Nom Anor toyed idly with a sacworm of dragweed broth while he waited for the shaper drone to finish its report.
The warriors who accompanied Nom Anor and the Shaper Lord formed another line within.
Nom Anor and the Shaper Lord made to follow, along with the priests and the vanguard band, but as soon as Ganner was clear of the doorway, Jacen turned and made a small gesture that Ganner felt as another swift, incredibly powerful rush in the Force.
She was reminded of the taaphur, a sea creature that existed now only as a genetic blueprint in the memory qahsa of the shapers and in its biotechnological derivatives.
She was reminded of the taaphur, a sea crea-ture that existed now only as a genetic blueprint in the memory qahsa of the shapers and in its biotechnological derivatives.
In ages past, the Shapers of Destiny believed that Chislev herself reached out to them during their time of meditation.
Scales and spines were already emerging as high up as his swollen biceps, and above that his arm swarmed with the diptera maggots seeded by the shapers to eat away his dying flesh.
Most continued to carve new detail into the landscape around them-hut some gave up on shapers altogether, and started running shriekers: brief loops of instructions which fed streams of pulses into the primitive networks which had grown up between the seeds.
The tracks of these networks were just the highest ridges the shapers had built, and the pulses were tiny arrowheads, one and two steps higher.
Woken by the traffic, new shapers started up and began to disassemble the excess junctions, preserving only those where a sufficient number of pulses was arriving simultaneously-choosing, out of all the countless alternatives, pathways which could operate in synchrony.
Dozens or hundreds of shapers clambered among the blocks, bearing bundles and implements and jiggling sacs of liquid.
This had cost the Shaper economy many gigawatts of precious energy and tons of rare metals and isotopes.
Of necessity, the Mechanists had used genetic techniques stolen from their rivals the Shapers to turn the roaches into colorful pets.
After all, you Shapers are constructed of genes patented by Reshaped genetics firms.