Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MOLD

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Definitions of MOLD

1. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
2. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
3. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
4. The shape or pattern of a mold.
5. General shape or form.
6. Distinctive character or type.
7. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
8. 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.
9. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
10. To cover with mold or soil.
11. A fungus that creates such colored, furry growths.
12. (architecture) A group of moldings.
13. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
14. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
15. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
16. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
17. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
18. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
19. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
20. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
21. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
22. (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.
23. (dialectal or obsolete) The top or crown of the head.
24. A town in and the county town of, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2364).
25. A unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, USA.
26. A surname.

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Examples of Using MOLD in a Sentence

• The transport services, transport agencies providing these services, the organizations and people who plan, build, maintain, and operate the system, and the policies that mold its development.
• Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
• Mold health issues refer to the harmful health effects of molds ("moulds" in British English) and their mycotoxins.
• Traditional techniques include lost-wax casting (which may be further divided into centrifugal casting, and vacuum assist direct pour casting), plaster mold casting and sand casting.
• The individual segments were interconnected by "bridges" (much in the ARPANET mold), generally older computers like PDP-11s with two network interfaces.
• T-2 mycotoxin, a type of trichothecene mycotoxin, a naturally occurring mold byproduct of certain species of Fusarium fungi.
• He interested the wealthy San Francisco capitalist Thomas Henry Blythe (originally born Thomas Williams in Mold, Wales) to undertake development and settlement of an "empire" located next to the Colorado.
• Thousands of years later, it was the first metal to be smelted from sulfide ores, ; the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, ; and the first metal to be purposely alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze,.
• The company helped to introduce pressed glass production to America, pressing the glass into a mold where previously the technique of cut glass had been to blow it by hand.
• The fort, which was of strategic importance during the American Revolution as the guardpost over a small deposit of lead used to mold bullets, was situated at the junction of the Great Trading Path and the Richmond Road, near the New River.
• Dissimilar from other snow molds, such as gray snow mold, Microdochium nivale does not need snow cover to cause widespread infection.
• Leaf mold (spelled leaf mould outside of the United States) is the compost produced by decomposition of shaded deciduous shrub and tree leaves, primarily by fungal breakdown in a slower, cooler manner as opposed to the bacterial degradation of leaves.
• Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a fungus-like microorganism that causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight.
• The Salyut living conditions were starting to degrade by July 1975, with the environmental control system failing, windows fogged over and green mold growing on the station walls.
• William the Conqueror granted the lands and manor to Hugh Lupus since it formed part of the County Palatine of Chester, whereupon Hawarden Castle was built and later proved key to Welsh history, at that time lived in by Roger Fitzvalerine, then the Montaults, or de Montaltos, barons of Mold, who held it as seneschal.
• In viticulture, it is commonly known as "botrytis bunch rot"; in horticulture, it is usually called "grey mould" or "gray mold".
• Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant, sometimes used when storing clothing and other materials susceptible to damage from silverfish, mold or moth larvae (especially clothes moths like Tineola bisselliella).
• He lives in South Park with his father Gerald, a lawyer, and his overprotective mother Sheila, a housewife who fits the mold of a Jewish mother stereotype.
• Their styles, textures and flavors depend on the origin of the milk (including the animal's diet), whether they have been pasteurized, the butterfat content, the bacteria and mold, the processing, and aging.
• Biological contaminants include mold, fungus, bacteria, viruses, animal dander, dust mites, pollen, human skin cells, cockroach parts, or anything alive or living at one time.
• I'd like to see Flo Rida convince me why he's special with his next album - until then he's just another MC with a well produced album who came out of a cookie cutter hitmaking mold.
• Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci) is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected.
• The "cotton mold", Saprolegnia, can infect fish, which can result in the appearance of fish covered in the white "fur".
• Alexandra joined the Mold, Deeside and Buckley League for the 1930–31 season, playing its first competitive fixture on 30 August 1930, defeating Oakenholt St David's 5–3.
• A muffin or bun is an individually portioned baked product; however, the term can refer to one of two distinct items: a part-raised flatbread (like a crumpet) that is baked and then cooked on a griddle (typically unsweetened), or a (often sweetened) quickbread that is chemically leavened and then baked in a mold.

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