26984 words

mould

6 definitions • 8 examples
1
a soft, green or grey growth that develops on old food or on objects that have been left for too long in warm, wet air:

Examples:

There was mould on the cheese.
2
a hollow container with a particular shape into which soft or liquid substances are poured, so that when the substance becomes hard it takes the shape of the container:

Examples:

a cake/jelly mould
3
If someone is from or in a particular mould, they have the characteristics typical of a certain type of person:

Examples:

He's cast in a very different mould from his brother.
He's a player in the Federer mould.
4
to make a soft substance have a particular shape:

Examples:

This plastic is going to be moulded into plates.
The children moulded little pots out of/from (= made them by shaping) clay.
5
to try to change or influence someone:

Examples:

He kept trying to mould me into something he wanted me to be.
6
to fit the body very closely:

Examples:

She was wearing an extremely tight costume that moulded to/round the contours of her body.

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