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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moulding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
injection moulding
▪ injection-moulded fittings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Moulding planes are excellent to work with, but the job of producing long lengths of moulding can be very time-consuming.
▪ All these constituents needed fusing and moulding into a unity in his mind.
▪ In this chair, it was convenient to carry out the shaping and moulding of the parts before fitting the arms.
▪ Many human developmental abnormalities arise from abnormalities in the moulding of sheets of cells.
▪ Matching moulding I want to get some more moulding to match that in my hallway.
▪ On a cut-string staircase, the spindles are usually housed in the treads and these are covered with moulding.
▪ Right: This strong style was created by moulding and separating strands of hair.
▪ The moulding was hard and marked him for life.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moulding

moulding \moulding\ n.

  1. a sculpture produced by molding.

    Syn: mold, mould, molding, modeling, clay sculpture.

  2. a decorative recessed or relieved surface.

    Syn: molding, border.

  3. a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing.

    Syn: molding.

  4. a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied.

    Syn: modeling, molding.

Wiktionary
moulding

n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of molding English)

WordNet
moulding
  1. n. a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing [syn: molding]

  2. a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge [syn: molding, border]

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

  4. a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied [syn: modeling, modelling, molding]

Usage examples of "moulding".

This inter-penetration of mouldings is found also on the aisle side of the main piers of the choir, and is more characteristic of later German Gothic than of English.

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.

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.

Properties and Composition -- Preparation of Raw Materials: Disaggregation -- Purification -- Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic Method -- By Dry Method -- By Liquid Method -- Formation, Processes of Formation: Throwing -- Expression -- Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley, by Compression, by Slip Casting -- Slapping -- Slipping -- Drying.

She had long flowing hair, gold in hue, and she was clothed in some sort of gossamery stuff which clung close, moulding lithesome curves as she ran.

By putting the kaolin and the petuntse together in the right proportions, moulding the clay, and afterward applying to it a glaze of some sort the Chinese made their porcelain, and very beautiful porcelain it was.

It is somewhat obtuse in form, and is surmounted by an ogee pediment or outer moulding.

Lathes, Drills, Planers, Hand Tools for Iron Work, new Woodworth Planing Machines, Resawing, Tenoning, Moulding Machines, Scroll Saws, Portable Steam Engine.

And abandoned to weather and moss in the corner by the turret lay the obvious fragments of the old stone voussoirs from the former archway, a few pitted and crumbling strips of moulding, a couple of decorative bosses worn to the fragility of shells.

The sacred screen now before me mounts its head into the dome, and presents an imposing and even an architectonic aspect, but certain details, such as classic mouldings of columns, and a broken entablature, pronounce the edifice to be comparatively modern.

Grecian altar screen of Bishop Bisse they were struck by the traces of Norman mouldings, whilst on traversing the clerestory gallery the remains of Norman ornaments were everywhere to be found, the gallery itself being still existent at each side, returned behind the wooden coverings, up to the splays of the eastern windows.

Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico.

Next, making for a particular spot on the wall, she selected one of the palmettes in the plaster moulding and pressed it, whereupon a section of the green silken panelling slid aside to reveal a metal safe.

The great chamber bore many traces of its former state : the walls were pannelled in dark wood and there were elaborate mouldings around the windows and the door-frames and on the corners of the ceiling.

The marvellous part is the startlingly high relief of the mouldings, and the quaintness of the evolutionary ideas, all those centuries before Darwin.