MOULD


Meaning of MOULD in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

injection moulding

injection-moulded fittings

leaf mould

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

leaf

One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould .

Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.

Plant this shrub in an open position and mulch with peat or leaf mould .

Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould , and in an instant their pursuers were upon her.

In this country, experiments are continuing with sticky goo to counteract the slippery leaf mould .

■ VERB

break

The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.

He was not out to break the mould , just to collect better data.

Above left: Lauren Hutton broke the model mould .

But here and there, societies rouse themselves to break the mould .

A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould .

For a brief moment in the late 1980s and early 1990s ecstasy broke this mould .

The new head of school who's breaking the mould .

There is a heavy price to be paid for breaking the mould .

cast

In his wide-shouldered tallness, he looked to Mum as if he had been cast in the same mould as Joshua himself.

Ornaments and statues were cast in a mould and the material lent itself very well to this technique, preserving crisp detailing.

Was he cast in the same mould ?

Modernist cinema is cast in a Brechtian mould of distantiation and bears formalist characteristics.

fit

The huge engine meant Honda faced a problem keeping the bike's seat height low enough to fit the cruiser mould .

Franco, however, did not fit that mould .

In a land that reveres fighters and footballers he did not fit the mould .

make

Black rubber ones for launch were made from a mould taken of the astronaut's hand.

Before making these fish you must make a mould .

These differences could obviously prove useful in identifying batches of paper made by the same mould .

use

Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media, and published once more on the subject before 1942.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although not unattractive, he was cut in a rougher mould than his father.

Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.

He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming, and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified.

One pupil envisaged mould as a tiny plant with little legs, which moved from place to place.

Remember too, that a nut going mouldy in air has room for the mould to show as fibres or a crust.

The internal mould shows the gently-curving suture lines.

The teeth it exposed were greened with mould , and sharpened.

What the mould is growing on appears to be a cornflake.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Mould the sausage meat into little balls.

Her movements were quick and graceful, like those of a potter moulding clay.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Canon law, on the other hand, was the clay with which the pope could mould society.

His face wore a manic expression into which it had been moulding itself, a little more permanently, with each passing day.

In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan.

It took the influence and personality of one man, John Reith, to mould the organization in the early years.

Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.

Sporting director Todt has moulded the team into a slick unit and Brawn provides the brains.

The outer skin would be moulded in clear perspex or similar with an inner skin behind it.

The West Riding of Yorkshire was certainly a great influence in moulding his mind and manner of the particular artist he became.

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