[
US
/ˈmoʊɫd/
]
[ UK /mˈəʊld/ ]
[ UK /mˈəʊld/ ]
NOUN
- loose soil rich in organic matter
- the process of becoming mildewed
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a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
a lobster mold
a gelatin dessert made in a mold - container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- sculpture produced by molding
- a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
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the distinctive form in which a thing is made
pottery of this cast was found throughout the region -
a distinctive nature, character, or type
a leader in the mold of her predecessors
VERB
-
shape or influence; give direction to
mold public opinion
experience often determines ability -
become moldy; spoil due to humidity
The furniture molded in the old house -
make something, usually for a specific function
shape a figure
Work the metal into a sword
Form cylinders from the dough
She molded the rice balls carefully -
fit tightly, follow the contours of
The dress molds her beautiful figure -
form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
cast a bronze sculpture -
form in clay, wax, etc
model a head with clay
How To Use mold In A Sentence
- It's hay that may have become moldy - if it was moist when put in the haymow - but it is just as effective for mulching as good hay, and a great deal cheaper.
- The play attracted a great deal of interest: the leading members of the State Yiddish Theater in Moscow (known by the acronym GOSET) came to see it, and the work was the first of several plays to tour other performance halls throughout the Moldavian Republic, including Tiraspol and Chernovtsy. Romanian Yiddish Theater.
- In chronic smoldering cases, inflammatory bowel disease can be misdiagnosed, and treatment with steroids only exacerbates the infection.
- Mineral filled, toughened, lubricated polybutylene terephthalate resin for injection moldingsurface aesthetics.
- At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
- The process to make the cap includes positioning viscous plastic material in a mold to produce the desired retention member shape.
- The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
- Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist.