natural shape
- noun
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forma natural
- I'm just taking this contour color and contouring the natural shape of my eye on both sides.
I'm just taking this contour color and contouring the natural shape of my eye on both sides.
- I'm just taking this contour color and contouring the natural shape of my eye on both sides.
Examples
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When designing the garden, they aimed to highlight the natural shape of the landscape.
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Again, just following the natural shape to start with, just getting a little base colour on.
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That was the natural shape of his hand now, a fist.
Fiction book (1993) -
And for this, I'm literally just following the natural shape of how my eyelid goes.
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Every set of eyes has a natural shape and size, and those with small or narrow eyes must work particularly hard to make them visible to the audience.
Academic text (2008) -
So I place it flat and I just move up like with the natural shape of my brow hairs.
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The artist chose to preserve the natural shape of the rock rather than alter it with tools.
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The delicate curves of the mountain range are a beautiful example of its natural shape.
Synonyms
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1.3
The visible shape or structure of something
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'natural' (produced by nature) modifies 'shape' (form or outline), so the combined meaning is directly predictable from the parts. This literal, non-metaphorical reading is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Natural shape comes from the image of a rock, leaf, or coastline left exactly as nature made it, with rough edges and gentle curves rather than cuts by people. Natural points to nature and shape means the form or outline of something. So, natural shape means the 'original form' of something, the way it looks without human change.