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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British Variant of mold1.
  2. n. Chiefly British Variant of mold2.
  3. n. Chiefly British Variant of mold3.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. etc. See mold, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, Canada Canadian and UK spelling of mold.
  2. v. UK, Canada Canadian and UK spelling of mold.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. See mold, molder, moldy, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
  2. n. a distinctive nature, character, or type
  3. v. make something, usually for a specific function
  4. n. container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
  5. n. loose soil rich in organic matter
  6. v. form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
  7. v. form in clay, wax, etc
  8. n. the distinctive form in which a thing is made
  9. n. a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
  10. n. sculpture produced by molding
  11. n. the process of becoming mildewed

Examples

  • “The most damaging mould is known as the “brown mould”.”

    Chapter 5

  • “Now that the mould is here, I have ordered some clay, and will mess around in a week or so, when it arrives.”

    Archive 2007-08-01

  • “A rabbit shaped mould is essential if you are on a nostalgia kick!”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “TOP OF THE HEAPIf you have the room, create a separate leaf heap rather than simply adding leaves to compost, as leaf mould is a luxury soil improver if you are growing lilies in pots.”

    The Guardian: Gardening jobs for November

  • “Another point to this is that sometimes, there's only one bowl, or one pan, and when it's covered in mould from not being cleaned by the person who last used it, no one else can cook.”

    Archive 2008-12-01

  • “By the vagaries of language, the word generated three different words in English: mould, module, model.”

    Model Theory

  • “A mould is made of the clay figure and he casts it out in fibreglass resin and silicone.”

    Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives

  • “Dyson Airblade removes bacteria and mould from the air using HEPA filtration.”

    James Dyson Reinvents the Hand Dryer | Impact Lab

  • “The wildwood covers the virgin mould, and the same soil is good for men and for trees.”

    Walking

  • “Leaf mould is splendid stuff, but it takes a long time for the leaves to get mouldy, and it takes a great many too.”

    Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. molt
  1. leaf mould

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘mould’

  1. moulder
  1. mouldy

hypernyms (17)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. earmark
  2. stylemark
  3. trade-mark
  1. hall-mark
  2. work
  3. mold
  1. form
  2. shape
  3. forge
  1. solid
  2. dish
  3. sweet
  1. afters
  2. dessert
  3. sculpture
  1. spoilage
  2. spoiling

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. molding
  1. cornice
  1. moldings

rhymes (49)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Nolde
  2. ahold
  3. behold
  4. bold
  5. bowled
  6. cajoled
  7. cold
  8. consoled
  9. controlled
  1. decontrolled
  2. dold
  3. doled
  4. enfold
  5. enrolled
  6. extolled
  7. fold
  8. foretold
  9. fourfold
  1. gold
  2. golde
  3. hold
  4. holde
  5. holed
  6. mold
  7. nold
  8. old
  9. olde
  1. outsold
  2. oversold
  3. paroled
  4. patrolled
  5. polled
  6. remold
  7. resold
  8. rolled
  9. scold
  1. sold
  2. strolled
  3. told
  4. tolled
  5. twofold
  6. uncontrolled
  7. undersold
  8. unfold
  9. unsold
  1. untold
  2. uphold
  3. withhold
  4. wold

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  • Prolagus And you pretend to read a book you'll never finish till the day
    That the author dedicates it
    To A Century Of Fakers
    They took your mould and they burned it on the fire in history today
    Yeah, the author dedicates it
    To A Century Of Fakers
    He was an anarchist, he tried his best but it wasn't good enough.

    (A century of fakers, by Belle and Sebastian) Dec 2, 2008

  • qroqqa I was surprised to learn on the weekend that 'mould' "fungal coating" is not related to the 'mould' meaning "earth, soil" but normally encountered in combinations like 'mouldboard' "part of a plough", 'mouldwarp' "mole (animal)", 'grave-mould' "earth of the grave", and 'moulder' "rot, crumble".

    As this 'mould' is unfamiliar on its own, 'grave-mould' has sometimes been reinterpreted as containing the other one: indeed, Joyce seems to do so in Ulysses:

    Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil, her face worn and noseless, green with gravemould.

    (The 'mould' meaning "matrix, model, form" is again unrelated. And 'mole' the animal is not related to its alternative name 'mouldwarp'.) Jul 22, 2008

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