Definition of Mould

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Definition of Mould

Mould

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

To cover with mold or soil.

A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.

The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.

That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.

Cast; form; shape; character.

A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

A fontanel.

A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.

To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

Alt. of Mouldy

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Mould Quotations

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Kim Jong Il

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas Kempis

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
Joseph Pulitzer

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Lech Walesa

Mould Translations

mould in Dutch is modelleren, boetseren
mould in French is modeler
mould in Italian is forma
mould in Portuguese is molde
mould in Spanish is horma, molde

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