mold
English
Alternative forms
- mould (British spelling)
Pronunciation
- enPR: mŏld, mōld
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Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin modulus, from Latin modus. Doublet of module. Doublet of model.
Noun
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
- The shape or pattern of a mold.
- General shape or form.
- the oval mold of her face
- 1711, Alexander Pope, "The Temple of Fame", in The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin, Volume 1, J.Murray, p.206
- Crowned with an architrave of antique mould.
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- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- Distinctive character or type.
- a leader in the mold of her predecessors
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
- His method of scientific investigation broke the mold and led to a new discovery.
- (architecture) A group of moldings.
- the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts
- (anatomy) A fontanelle.
Derived terms
- break the mold
- (archaeology): post mold
- (paleontology): fossil mold
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Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
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- 1978, Job 10:8-9, Old Testament, New International Version:
- Your hands shaped me and made me … Remember that you molded me like clay.
- (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
- 1963. Haile Selassie (translated)
- It is you who must mold the minds of your students that they may be wise, farsighted, intelligent, profound in their thinking, devoted to their country and government and fruitful in their work. It is you who must sense as the example.
- 1963. Haile Selassie (translated)
- (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
- (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
- (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
- (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
- These shoes gradually molded to my feet.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz 'soft substance' (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- 'slick, soft'. More at muck and meek.
Noun
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)
- A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
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Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
- (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
Etymology 3
From Old English molde, from Proto-Germanic *muldō ‘dirt, soil’ (compare Old Frisian molde, Middle Dutch moude, Dutch moude, obsolete German Molte, Norwegian Bokmål mold), from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥-tā (compare Old Irish moll ‘bran’, Lithuanian mìltai ‘flour’), from *mel- (compare English meal). More at meal.
Noun
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.
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Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- To cover with mold or soil.
Anagrams
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō ‘dirt, soil’, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥-tā, from *mel-.
Pronunciation
Noun
mold f (genitive singular moldar, uncountable)
- (agriculture) earth, humus soil, humus layer
Declension
Declension of mold (singular only) | ||
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f2s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mold | moldin |
accusative | mold | moldina |
dative | mold | moldini |
genitive | moldar | moldarinnar |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mold f (genitive singular moldar, nominative plural moldir)
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.
Noun
mold f or m (definite singular molda or molden, uncountable)
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References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.
Noun
mold f (definite singular molda, uncountable)
References
- “mold” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Old English molde (English mold), Old High German molta, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).
Pronunciation
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Noun
mold f (genitive moldar, plural moldir)
- earth, dirt, soil
- Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 7–8:
- mjǫtvið mœran
- fyr mold neðan.
- the great tree
- beneath the ground.
- Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 7–8:
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Descendants
References
- “mold”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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