Difference between shipshape and shape
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adjective
- of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder
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House maintenance doesn't finish while you're selling houses, in fact it's even more necessary to keep everything shipshape and Bristol fashion when buyers may descend at any moment.
Getting shipshape in the New Year doesn't have to be punishing or expensive.
With its colourful houses, street cafes and lively nightlife, the area is best-known as a hangout for students and a stop-off for those visiting the city pad of the poet Pablo Neruda, which is kept shipshape (literally), just as he and his third wife left it.
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noun
- the supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe
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This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green
