to mold

To move and shape materials with hands or tools

To give something a certain form for a purpose

To make or shape something

To make a small copy of something to show or study it

To shape clothes or fabric by stretching them on a form

To make a statue from stone, wood, or clay by cutting and shaping it

To shape metal or wax by pouring it into a mold

To shape metal by heating and hammering or to make something with effort

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

Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed

To take something apart into separate pieces

To do something in a new way instead of the usual way

A simple living thing that forms a soft moving blob to find food

Soil made mostly of dead leaves that have rotted to help plants grow

A disease that makes a bluish-grey growth on the lower side of tobacco leaves and damages the plants

A common fungus that often grows on bread and looks fuzzy

A shaped pan used for baking cakes so they take that shape

A slime mold that keeps its cells separate during its life cycle and does not form a single mass

A small ledge above a window or doorway that directs rain away from the wall

One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells

A container like a pan that shapes and holds dough or batter while it bakes

A brown stain on cloth or paper made by rust, sometimes by ink

A soft organism that becomes one large cell with many nuclei and moves slowly

An algorithm inspired by the slime mold that finds efficient routes in networks

A disease caused by a fungus that makes potatoes rot in fields

A soft mass of many cells that moves like an amoeba and feeds on decaying plants

A small living thing like a fungus that lives in fresh water and can harm plants or animals