MORPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morph mean? 

• MORPH (verb)
  The verb MORPH has 2 senses:

1. cause to change shape in a computer animation

2. change shape as via computer animation

  Familiarity information: MORPH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORPH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they morph    ... he / she / it morphs   
Past simple: morphed   
Past participle: morphed   
-ing form: morphing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to change shape in a computer animation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The computer programmer morphed the image

Hypernyms (to "morph" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Cause:

morph (change shape as via computer animation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change shape as via computer animation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

In the video, Michael Jackson morphed into a panther

Hypernyms (to "morph" is one way to...):

contort; deform; distort; wring (twist and press out of shape)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Dan Finotello, a program director in NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate adds, This polymer integrates fast reversible and reprogrammable actuation, shape locking and untethered operation for applications in soft robotics, morphing structures, and deformable electronics, especially for designing active and adaptive guidewires, catheters and stents that could potentially enable the next generation of biomedical devices for minimally invasive operations.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)