to mold
- verb
- /moʊld/
- US
- Using different techniques, he can mold the glass into various shapes.
- mold clay
- injection-molded
- custom-molded
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Watch on YouTubeSo they have to mold it for you.
- So they have to mold it for you.
- These are easier to kind of mold how you want them to be.
- But then I bet I was still young enough to be able to mold and like build with my partner.
- So if you take the hair and you break open these bonds, you can mould it into various kinds of curly shapes.
- I would still wear them, but eventually I think my ears they molded like I adapted to the technology.
Examples
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You can now touch it, feel it, mold it in your hands.
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We all brought our own thing to the table, that he would then take and just mold and make a masterpiece out of.
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So it takes a lot to try to mold that relationship.
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These are easier to kind of mold how you want them to be.
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And I guess I kind of molded myself and my interests around what I saw.
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That way, you can mold them into whatever you want them to be, like Play-Doh.
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Sound like trying to mold our kids into the clay of their creations.
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Clay is molded while it is soft.
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Oh, just a Greek who took a hunk of marble and molded it and polished it into a beautiful woman.
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Artists often mold clay into beautiful sculptures with their hands.
Synonyms
To make or shape something
To move and shape materials with hands or tools
To make a small copy of something to show or study it
To shape metal by heating and hammering or to make something with effort
To make a statue from stone, wood, or clay by cutting and shaping it
To give something a certain form for a purpose
To shape metal or wax by pouring it into a mold
To shape clothes or fabric by stretching them on a form
To make pots or bowls by shaping clay with your hands without using a wheel
To shape plastic by pushing soft material into a mold
Make a metal object by pouring liquid metal into a sand mold
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A soft organism that becomes one large cell with many nuclei and moves slowly
- Specialized
A small living thing like a fungus that lives in fresh water and can harm plants or animals
- Specialized
A small ledge above a window or doorway that directs rain away from the wall
- 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
One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells
- 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
How Shaped
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb mold meaning to shape comes from the noun mold (a form); to mold clay or dough is to give it a form, just as a maker uses a mold to shape things.