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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mould
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
injection moulding
▪ injection-moulded fittings
leaf mould
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
leaf
▪ One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.
▪ Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
▪ Plant this shrub in an open position and mulch with peat or leaf mould.
▪ Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould, and in an instant their pursuers were upon her.
▪ In this country, experiments are continuing with sticky goo to counteract the slippery leaf mould.
■ VERB
break
▪ The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.
▪ He was not out to break the mould, just to collect better data.
▪ Above left: Lauren Hutton broke the model mould.
▪ But here and there, societies rouse themselves to break the mould.
▪ A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.
▪ For a brief moment in the late 1980s and early 1990s ecstasy broke this mould.
▪ The new head of school who's breaking the mould.
▪ There is a heavy price to be paid for breaking the mould.
cast
▪ In his wide-shouldered tallness, he looked to Mum as if he had been cast in the same mould as Joshua himself.
▪ Ornaments and statues were cast in a mould and the material lent itself very well to this technique, preserving crisp detailing.
▪ Was he cast in the same mould?
▪ Modernist cinema is cast in a Brechtian mould of distantiation and bears formalist characteristics.
fit
▪ The huge engine meant Honda faced a problem keeping the bike's seat height low enough to fit the cruiser mould.
▪ Franco, however, did not fit that mould.
▪ In a land that reveres fighters and footballers he did not fit the mould.
make
▪ Black rubber ones for launch were made from a mould taken of the astronaut's hand.
▪ Before making these fish you must make a mould.
▪ These differences could obviously prove useful in identifying batches of paper made by the same mould.
use
▪ Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media, and published once more on the subject before 1942.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although not unattractive, he was cut in a rougher mould than his father.
▪ Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
▪ He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming, and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified.
▪ One pupil envisaged mould as a tiny plant with little legs, which moved from place to place.
▪ Remember too, that a nut going mouldy in air has room for the mould to show as fibres or a crust.
▪ The internal mould shows the gently-curving suture lines.
▪ The teeth it exposed were greened with mould, and sharpened.
▪ What the mould is growing on appears to be a cornflake.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mould the sausage meat into little balls.
▪ Her movements were quick and graceful, like those of a potter moulding clay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Canon law, on the other hand, was the clay with which the pope could mould society.
▪ His face wore a manic expression into which it had been moulding itself, a little more permanently, with each passing day.
▪ In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan.
▪ It took the influence and personality of one man, John Reith, to mould the organization in the early years.
▪ Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.
▪ Sporting director Todt has moulded the team into a slick unit and Brawn provides the brains.
▪ The outer skin would be moulded in clear perspex or similar with an inner skin behind it.
▪ The West Riding of Yorkshire was certainly a great influence in moulding his mind and manner of the particular artist he became.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mould

Mold \Mold\, Mould \Mould\, n. [OE. molde, AS. molde; akin to D. mul, G. mull, mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, and E. meal flour. See Meal, and cf. Mole an animal, Mull, v.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the analogy by dropping it from this word, thus spelling it as Spenser, South, and many others did. The omission of the u is now very common in America.]

  1. Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

  2. Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

    The etherial mold, Incapable of stain.
    --Milton.

    Nature formed me of her softest mold.
    --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mould

chiefly British English spelling of mold in various senses. Related: Moulded; moulding.\n

Wiktionary
mould

n. (context British Canadian Australian English) (alternative spelling of mold English) vb. (context British Canadian Australian English) (alternative spelling of mold English)

WordNet
mould
  1. n. loose soil rich in organic matter [syn: mold]

  2. a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter [syn: mold]

  3. sculpture produced by molding [syn: mold, molding, moulding, modeling, clay sculpture]

  4. container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens [syn: mold, cast]

  5. v. form in clay, wax, etc; "model a head with clay" [syn: model, mold]

  6. form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" [syn: cast, mold]

  7. make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape, form, work, mold, forge]

Wikipedia
Mould (surname)

Mould is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bob Mould (born 1960), American musician with alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü and Sugar
  • Brooks K. Mould, American music publisher
  • Billy Mould (1919-1999), English footballer
  • Jacob Wrey Mould (1825-1886), English-born architect, illustrator, linguist and musician
  • James Mould (1870-1944), Canadian politician
  • Jeremy Mould (born 1949), Australian astronomer
  • John Mould (1910-1957), Australian Navy officer and recipient of the George Cross
  • Jon Mould (born 1991), Welsh racing cyclist
  • Philip Mould (born 1960), English art dealer and historian
  • Peter "Boy" Mould (1916-1941), British Royal Air Force Second World War flying ace

Usage examples of "mould".

Clement, that my lord is anhungered of the praise of the folks, and is not like to abide in a mere merchant-town till the mould grow on his back.

Bill had spent a lot of his childhood in country towns, I think that moulded his attitudes to Aboriginal people.

The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.

There was a murmur from inside the room, and presently a woman of medium height wearing a grey alpaca dress, the bodice of which seemed moulded to her thin body, stood confronting the footman, who had now taken a step back into the corridor.

Her legs were moulded by the hand of the Graces and I wiped them amorously, laughing within myself at her expression of gratitude, and I then laid her in bed, contenting myself with a solemn kiss on her pretty forehead.

When set, with a hot spoon scoop out the aspic from the centre of each mould and fill in the space with a mixture of the vegetables and jelly mayonnaise, leaving an open space at the top to be filled with half-set aspic.

When the aspic is thoroughly set and chilled, remove from the mould and serve on two lettuce leaves, with any dressing desired.

Set the mould in ice water, and, when the aspic is set, arrange upon it a decoration of cooked vegetables cut in shapes with French cutter, or fashion a conventional design or some flower.

Dip in half-set aspic the white of egg, poached and cut in fanciful shapes, and small gherkins cut in thin slices, and decorate the bottom and sides of a charlotte or cylindrical mould standing in ice water.

When removed from the mould, garnish with chopped aspic and fans cut from gherkins and lettuce.

All the rest waits for the appearing of the king to hail him for himself, not a being of accident and happening but authentically king, authentically Principle, The Good authentically, not a being that acts in conformity with goodness--and so, recognisably, a secondary--but the total unity that he is, no moulding upon goodness but the very Good itself.

For solely thus you lead to light The trailing chapters she must write, And pass my fiery test of dead Or living through the furnace-pit: Dislinked from who the softer hold In grip of brute, and brute remain: Of whom the woeful tale is told, How for one short Sultanic reign, Their bodies lapse to mould, Their souls behowl the plain.

I stroked it with my ring finger, were each overlaid by the inventories of a benevolent technologythe moulded binnacle of the instrument dials, the jutting carapace of the steering column shroud, the extravagant pistol grip of the handbrake.

Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.

In the general confusion, the boudoir had not been swept that morning, and near the desk were several traces of brown mould and earth.