mold

A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.

A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.

Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.

the oval mold of her face

Crowned with an architrave of antique mould.

1711, Alexander Pope, "The Temple of Fame", in The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin, Volume 1, J.Murray, p.206

This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

a leader in the mold of her predecessors

His method of scientific investigation broke the mold and led to a new discovery.

the arch mold of a porch or doorway;  the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts

en-noun

mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds)

valos

something that is made in or shaped on a mold

From Middle English molde (“mold, cast”), from Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus, from Latin modus. Doublet of module, modulus, and model.


mold

Not only in formal discourse, but in the ordinary walks of life, a well-modulated, expressive voice is a most valuable asset, whether one’s object be to interest, persuade or convince, to give a command or entreat a favor. The moulding of the voice into finished articulate speech is a mechanism in which the entire oral cavity, including palate, teeth, tongue and lips, take an important part. As a result of either structural defect of these organs, or, as is more often the case, as a consequence of their imperfect innervation, various logopathies may occur, which profoundly affect the social status of the unfortunate individual and seriously embarrass his way to a successful career.
Lisping, stuttering, stammering, lallation, nunnation and sigmatism, paragammacism and paralambdacism are but few of the locutory evils encountered, much too frequently in adolescents and adults. The fact that they are mostly amenable to treatment and may often be completely corrected, with proper attention and training, is something that needs to be more thoroughly impressed upon our educational bodies and sociologic reformers.

1910, Walter A. Wells, “The hygienic, economic and sociologic aspect of the throat”, in The Laryngoscope, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, pages 47–48:

Your hands shaped me and made me … Remember that you molded me like clay.

1978, Job 10:8-9, Old Testament, New International Version

(transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.

It is you who must mold the minds of your students that they may be wise, farsighted, intelligent, profound in their thinking, devoted to their country and government and fruitful in their work. It is you who must sense as the example.

(transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence

(transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.

(transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.

These shoes gradually molded to my feet.

(intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.

en-verb

mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded)

molds (present singular third-person)
molding (participle present)
molded (participle past)
molded (past)
mould (alternative)

оформям

To form into a particular shape; to give shape to


mold

A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.

A fungus that creates such colored, furry growths.

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of mowlen, moulen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz 'soft substance' (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.


mold

(transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

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


mold

Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.

(UK, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.

molds (plural)
mool (alternative)
mould (alternative)
mould (alternative)

From Middle English molde, from Old English molde, from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”) (compare Old Frisian molde, Middle Dutch moude, Dutch moude, obsolete German Molte, Norwegian Bokmål mold, and Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda)), from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥h₂-téh₂ (compare Ashkun mič, Kamkata-viri muři, mřey, mřëi, Prasuni mire, Waigali muk, all meaning "clay").


mold

What a while continueth the mould and crowne of our heads to beate and pant, before our braine is well ſetled[…]

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VII.] The Proëme.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 152:

By reaſon whereof the flaſhing of the Water, and ſharpness of the Air, did ſo pierce the Archbiſhop (being above Threeſcore and thirteen years of Age) that he complained the ſame night of a great cold, which he had then taken in the mould of his Head.

1612, Sir George Paule, The life of John Whitgift […] , London: Ri. Chiswell, published 1699, page 118:

[…]its eyes as large as a mans; and betwixt the two eyes, it hath a hole like the mould in the head of a man, by which it ſucks in and ſpouts out the Water[…]

1687, Jean de Thévenot, “Book I, Chapter II”, in Archibald Lovell, transl., Travels into the Levant, volume Part II, London, page 6:

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(dialectal or obsolete) The top or crown of the head.

From Middle English molde (“top of the head”), from Old English molda, molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldō, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ; exactly parallel to Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhán).


mold

tá myndaði Harrin Guð mannin av mold jarðar

And the Lord God formed man of the soil of the ground (Genesis 2,7)

(agriculture) earth, humus soil, humus layer

fo-noun

mold f (genitive singular moldar, uncountable)

moldar (genitive singular)
mold (indefinite nominative singular)
moldin (definite nominative singular)
mold (accusative indefinite singular)
moldina (accusative definite singular)
mold (dative indefinite singular)
moldini (dative definite singular)
moldar (genitive indefinite singular)
moldarinnar (definite genitive singular)

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō ‘dirt, soil’, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥h₂-téh₂, from *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).


mold

is-noun

mold f (genitive singular moldar, nominative plural moldir)

moldar (genitive singular)
moldir (nominative plural)
mold (indefinite nominative singular)
moldin (definite nominative singular)
moldir (indefinite nominative plural)
moldirnar (definite nominative plural)
mold (accusative indefinite singular)
moldu (accusative indefinite rare singular)
moldina (accusative definite singular)
molduna (accusative definite rare singular)
moldir (accusative indefinite plural)
moldirnar (accusative definite plural)
mold (dative indefinite singular)
moldu (dated dative indefinite literary singular)
moldinni (dative definite singular)
moldunni (dated dative definite literary singular)
moldum (dative indefinite plural)
moldunum (dative definite plural)
moldar (genitive indefinite singular)
moldarinnar (definite genitive singular)
molda (genitive indefinite plural)
moldanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”).


mold

Alternative form of molde (“top of the head”)


mold

Han kastet seg ned i åkeren og grov en grop i molda.

1973, Sigbjørn Hølmebakk, Tolv trøndere:

He fell down in the field and dug a hole in the soil

molda (definite singular)
molden (definite singular)
molder (indefinite plural)
moldene (definite plural)
muld (alternative)

From Old Norse mold (“earth, dirt, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“mould, soil, dirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).


mold

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.


mold

[…]níu man ek heima, / níu íviðjur,

[…] nine worlds I remember, / nine troll-women
a renowned tree of measure, / 'fore the earth below.

moldar (genitive)
moldir (plural)
mold (indefinite nominative singular)
moldin (definite nominative singular)
moldar (indefinite nominative plural)
moldarnar (definite nominative plural)
mold (accusative indefinite singular)
moldina (accusative definite singular)
moldar (accusative indefinite plural)
moldarnar (accusative definite plural)
moldu (dative indefinite singular)
moldunni (dative definite singular)
moldum (dative indefinite plural)
moldunum (dative definite plural)
moldar (genitive indefinite singular)
moldarinnar (definite genitive singular)
molda (genitive indefinite plural)
moldanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

mold

Faroese: mold

Icelandic: mold

Norwegian Nynorsk: mold

→ Norwegian Bokmål: mold

Old Swedish: muld

Swedish: mull

Old Danish: muld

Danish: muld

Norwegian Bokmål: muld m or f

From Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Old English molde (English mold), Old High German molta, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).