Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of molding.
- noun Something that is molded.
- noun An embellishment in strip form, made of wood or other structural material, that is used to decorate or finish a surface, such as the wall of a room or building or the surface of a door or piece of furniture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of covering with mold; mold used to cover the roots of plants.
- noun The process of shaping any plastic substance into a given form, as wax into artistic figures, or clay into bricks.
- noun Anything cast in a mold, or anything formed as if by a mold.
- noun In architecture, a member of construction or decoration so treated as to introduce varieties of outline or contour in edges or surfaces, whether on projections or in cavities, such as on cornices, string-courses, bases, door- or window-jambs, lintels, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Used in making a mold or moldings; used in shaping anything according to a pattern.
- adjective A board on which bread or pastry is kneaded and shaped.
- adjective (Woodworking), (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
- adjective a mill for shaping timber.
- adjective (Founding) a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
- noun The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
- noun Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal, or sculptures.
- noun (Arch.) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See
Cable , n., 3, and Crenelated molding, underCrenelate , v. t. - noun a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing.
- noun a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a
molder . - noun Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
- noun architecture A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
- noun woodwork A planing machine for making moldings.
- noun founding A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
- noun milling A mill for shaping timber.
- noun founding A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing
- noun sculpture produced by molding
- noun the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- noun a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- noun a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
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Examples
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 Not all doors are built this way, some will have one piece of glass that covers the entire window opening and instead of having wooden dividers between each section, the molding is applied over the glass.
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It's important to realize that for evaluating the likelihood of Idiocracy or Freakonomics, it doesn't particularly matter whether nature or nurture is the driving force in molding the next generation.
Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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 A duplicate set of applied molding is applied to the other side of the glass giving an appearance of being true divided light.
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A collection of book shelves and coffee tables/bed tables born thanks to the expert use of the iron by Antonino Sciortino whose ability in molding, since a long time, creates pieces of furniture as beautiful as sculptures and functional as furniture objects.
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Taylorism was across the bow a huge factor in molding the Unions of the automotive industry and similar, as a reaction to the disempowerment of the qualified worker it brings with.
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Heath Ledger, this opinion not being bias towards his death, changed his acting style overnight to do something incredible in molding the Joker into something you feared and shivered at every time you saw him in a scene.
Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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"Their strength in molding Canadian attitudes cannot be overestimated," Conway wrote.
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Music molds much of what I write, though I suspect the molding is beneath the surface, for the most part.
Horrorfind, and Music with your Muse... deep_bluze 2004
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"Their strength in molding Canadian attitudes cannot be overestimated," Conway wrote.
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I had been planning to use tile trim pieces because wooden molding is so expensive, but this sale price was less than the tile would cost.
chained_bear commented on the word molding
Continuous ornamental contour formed on a surface or bevelled edge.
August 25, 2008