Definitions for mold

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mold mold

Spelling: [mohld]

IPA: /moʊld/

Mold is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in mold (dlmo).

Definitions for mold

noun

1. a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
2. the shape created or imparted to a thing by a mold.
3. something formed in or on a mold:
4. a frame on which something is formed or made.
5. shape or form.
6. a prototype, example, or precursor.
7. a distinctive nature, character, or type:
8. Shipbuilding. a three-dimensional pattern used to shape a plate after it has been softened by heating. a template for a frame.
9. Architecture. a molding. a group of moldings.
10. a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
11. any of the fungi that produce such a growth.
12. loose, friable earth, especially when rich in organic matter and favorable to the growth of plants.
13. British Dialect. ground; earth.

verb (used with object)

1. to work into a required shape or form; shape.
2. to shape or form in or on a mold.
3. Metallurgy. to form a mold of or from, in order to make a casting.
4. to produce by or as if by shaping material; form.
5. to have influence in determining or forming:
6. to ornament with moldings.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to become or cause to become overgrown or covered with mold.

Origin of mold

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English molde Old French modle Latin modulus module; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Examples for mold

National Republicans see her in the mold of moderates like Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, but Democrats disagree.

At the age of thirteen he had taken his fortune in his own hand, and was about to mold it as best he might.

It will be well to look at them occasionally to see that they do not get too dry nor be so damp as to mold.

Headmasters are in a unique position of power to mold the minds of impressionable young students.

On an issue like Syria, Cruz remains in the Kirkpatrick mold.

When he turned he saw, to his horror, Gunga about to smash into the mold with his ax.

Square-jawed and muscular—in snapshots he looks like Channing Tatum in camo—Gibbs seemed to fit the mold of the ideal soldier.

One can think of a few American commentators who fit into that mold.

The cellar had only a mud bottom and this was covered with slime and mold.

They should have gone into the mold in proper relation to each other.