English for Civil Engineering: Describing Shapes

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Every day, we see various objects with different shapes. Shapes in English are called shapes. These shapes can be drawn or in the form of two dimensions or three dimensions. This two-dimensional shape is called a flat shape, while the three-dimensional shape is a space shape.

Shapes is very important because without understanding shapes, we cannot identify objects. In geometry, a shape can be defined as the form of an object or its outline, outer boundary or outer surface.

Everything we see in the world around us has a shape. We can find different basic shapes such as the two-dimensional square, rectangle, and oval or the three-dimensional rectangular prism, cylinder, and sphere in the objects we see around us. These geometric shapes appear in objects we see as credit cards, bills and coins, finger rings, photo frames, dart boards, huts, windows, magician’s wands, tall buildings, flower pots, toy trains, and balloons.

Lines

No less important to understand are the various lines in studying shapes. In general, lines only consist of two types, the first is straight lines and the second is curved or curved lines. However, for the details themselves, the lines are divided into their own sections. There are various types of lines, there are vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, curved lines and parallel lines.

2 Dimensional Shapes

In general, flat shapes are a term for various two-dimensional shapes. Another definition of a flat shape is a shape that is flat and only has two dimensions, namely length and width but not height and thickness.

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Various flat shapes have various shapes. The various flat shapes included in the geometry material are circles, rhombuses, kites, trapezoids, parallelograms, triangles, rectangles and squares.

The geometry for a 2-dimensional building can be seen as follows:

• Rectangular

• Ellipse

• Parallelogram

• Kite

• Circle

• Rectangle

• Rectangle

• Polygon

• Rectangular

• Trapezoidal Triangle

3 Dimensional Shapes

Three-dimensional geometry discusses measurements made on shapes (shapes that have space to be filled). Examples of geometric shapes studied include blocks, cubes, prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones and balls. Apart from that, there is material regarding penetration points, intersections, angle geometry, and distance geometry in three-dimensional geometry.

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Not only two-dimensional buildings, but geometry also includes three-dimensional buildings as follows;

• Beam

• Ball

• Cone

• Cube

• Pyramid

• Polyhedron

• Prism

• Ellipsoid of revolution

• Tube

References:

https://www.universitas123.com/news/mengenal-macam-macam-bentuk-geometri

https://www.jagoanbahasainggris.com/2017/03/jenis-jenis-bentuk-shape-dalam-bahasa-inggris-dan-soal-latihannya.html

https://promova.com/english-vocabulary/shapes-english-vocabulary