mold
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3.8
- noun
- /moʊld/
- US
:
molde
- Teledyne's engineers then design the mold or die and refine it for ease of manufacturing.
- poured into a mold
- cast in a mold
- make molds
And once I made a mold of my penis as a gift.
- And once I made a mold of my penis as a gift.
- It's like this mold is birthing a shot glass.
- You don't have to have as solid of a mold as regular concrete.
- I have never made a silicone mold this big or used one.
- So let's first talk about tooling, manufacturing and molds for making different products.
Examples
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We'll build it off a mold of your foot.
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How do you explain how closely they match the mold taken of your mouth?
Fiction book (1997) -
So this is, for example, a simple mold of the back part.
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But I got this little ice mold and it makes these little bears.
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Do you have that mold that makes cakes...?
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So this is a custom piece, the mold itself is all custom to each driver.
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I'm making a mold of my foot for Laurie, to remind him I have nice feet.
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Sunkoro pounds the clay over a mold to form the base of a pot.
Academic text (1994) -
The system is used to manufacture stamping dies and compression molds for the automotive industry.
Academic text (1995) -
The baker used a mold to create beautiful cakes in various shapes.
Synonyms
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4.4
A particular type showing the origin or usual quality of something
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6.7
A mold used to shape liquid until it becomes hard
A container like a pan that shapes and holds dough or batter while it bakes
A shaped pan used for baking cakes so they take that shape
A pan that holds batter or dough while it bakes
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease that makes a bluish-grey growth on the lower side of tobacco leaves and damages the plants
- Specialized
A slime mold that keeps its cells separate during its life cycle and does not form a single mass
- Specialized
A small ledge above a window or doorway that directs rain away from the wall
- Specialized
One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells
- Specialized
A soft organism that becomes one large cell with many nuclei and moves slowly
- Specialized
An algorithm inspired by the slime mold that finds efficient routes in networks
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A soft mass of many cells that moves like an amoeba and feeds on decaying plants
- Specialized
A small living thing like a fungus that lives in fresh water and can harm plants or animals
How Detailed
- US
77
3.8
839
1.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mold for a container comes from an old word that meant 'shape' or 'form', and you can see the same idea in the word model; so a mold is a thing that gives something its shape.