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Meaning:
Noun:
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- A W
- 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.
- architecture See moulding.
- Distinctive character or type.
- General shape or form.
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mould.
- The shape or pattern of a mould.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- intransitive To be shaped in or as if in a mould.
- transitive To fit closely by following the contours of.
- transitive To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- transitive To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence; as, ''a teacher who helps to mould the minds of his students''
- transitive To make a mould of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
- transitive To ornament with mouldings.
- transitive To shape in or on a mould.
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