Meaning of Mold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
   US, countable, uncountable
3. The top or crown of the head.
   US, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
4. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
   US, countable, uncountable
5. A town and community in and the county town of Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2364).
6. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
   US, countable, uncountable
7. A fungus that creates such furry growths.
   US, countable, uncountable
8. Earth, ground.
   UK, US, countable, dialectal, plural, uncountable
9. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, United States.
10. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
    US, countable, uncountable
11. A surname.
12. The shape or pattern of a mold.
    US, countable, uncountable
13. General shape or form.
    US, countable, uncountable
14. Distinctive character or type.
    US, countable, uncountable
15. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
    US, countable, uncountable
16. A group of moldings.
    US, countable, uncountable
17. A fontanelle.
    US, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the oval mold of her face”

“Crowned with an architrave of antique mould.”

“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.”

“a leader in the mold of her predecessors”

“His method of scientific investigation broke the mold and led to a new discovery.”

“the arch mold of a porch or doorway;  the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts”

“What a while continueth the mould and crowne of our heads to beate and pant, before our braine is well ſetled[…]”

“By reaſon whereof the flaſhing of the Water, and ſharpness of the Air, did ſo pierce the Archbiſhop (being above Threeſcore and thirteen years of Age) that he complained the ſame night of a great cold, which he had then taken in the mould of his Head.”

“[…]its eyes as large as a mans; and betwixt the two eyes, it hath a hole like the mould in the head of a man, by which it ſucks in and ſpouts out the Water[…]”

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