I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
injection moulding
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injection-moulded fittings
leaf mould
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
leaf
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One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould .
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Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
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Plant this shrub in an open position and mulch with peat or leaf mould .
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Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould , and in an instant their pursuers were upon her.
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In this country, experiments are continuing with sticky goo to counteract the slippery leaf mould .
■ VERB
break
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The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.
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He was not out to break the mould , just to collect better data.
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Above left: Lauren Hutton broke the model mould .
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But here and there, societies rouse themselves to break the mould .
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A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould .
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For a brief moment in the late 1980s and early 1990s ecstasy broke this mould .
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The new head of school who's breaking the mould .
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There is a heavy price to be paid for breaking the mould .
cast
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In his wide-shouldered tallness, he looked to Mum as if he had been cast in the same mould as Joshua himself.
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Ornaments and statues were cast in a mould and the material lent itself very well to this technique, preserving crisp detailing.
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Was he cast in the same mould ?
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Modernist cinema is cast in a Brechtian mould of distantiation and bears formalist characteristics.
fit
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The huge engine meant Honda faced a problem keeping the bike's seat height low enough to fit the cruiser mould .
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Franco, however, did not fit that mould .
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In a land that reveres fighters and footballers he did not fit the mould .
make
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Black rubber ones for launch were made from a mould taken of the astronaut's hand.
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Before making these fish you must make a mould .
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These differences could obviously prove useful in identifying batches of paper made by the same mould .
use
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Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media, and published once more on the subject before 1942.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although not unattractive, he was cut in a rougher mould than his father.
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Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
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He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming, and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified.
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One pupil envisaged mould as a tiny plant with little legs, which moved from place to place.
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Remember too, that a nut going mouldy in air has room for the mould to show as fibres or a crust.
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The internal mould shows the gently-curving suture lines.
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The teeth it exposed were greened with mould , and sharpened.
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What the mould is growing on appears to be a cornflake.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mould the sausage meat into little balls.
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Her movements were quick and graceful, like those of a potter moulding clay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Canon law, on the other hand, was the clay with which the pope could mould society.
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His face wore a manic expression into which it had been moulding itself, a little more permanently, with each passing day.
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In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan.
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It took the influence and personality of one man, John Reith, to mould the organization in the early years.
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Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.
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Sporting director Todt has moulded the team into a slick unit and Brawn provides the brains.
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The outer skin would be moulded in clear perspex or similar with an inner skin behind it.
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The West Riding of Yorkshire was certainly a great influence in moulding his mind and manner of the particular artist he became.