The difference between Mold and Shape

When used as nouns, mold means a hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance, whereas shape means the status or condition of something.

When used as verbs, mold means to shape in or on a mold, whereas shape means to create or make.


check bellow for the other definitions of Mold and Shape

  1. Mold as a noun:

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

  2. Mold as a noun:

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

  3. Mold as a noun:

    Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.

  4. Mold as a noun:

    The shape or pattern of a mold.

  5. Mold as a noun:

    General shape or form.

    Examples:

    "the oval mold of her face"

  6. Mold as a noun:

    Distinctive character or type.

    Examples:

    "a leader in the mold of her predecessors"

  7. Mold as a noun:

    A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.

    Examples:

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

  8. Mold as a noun (architecture):

    A group of moldings.

    Examples:

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

  9. Mold as a noun (anatomy):

    A fontanelle.

  1. Mold as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Mold as a verb (transitive):

    To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence

  3. Mold as a verb (transitive):

    To fit closely by following the contours of.

  4. Mold as a verb (transitive):

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

  5. Mold as a verb (transitive):

    To ornament with moldings.

  6. Mold as a verb (intransitive):

    To be shaped in or as if in a mold.

    Examples:

    "These shoes gradually molded to my feet."

  1. Mold as a noun:

    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.

  1. Mold as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

  2. Mold as a verb (intransitive):

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

  1. Mold as a noun:

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

  2. Mold as a noun (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural):

    Earth, ground.

  1. Mold as a verb:

    To cover with mold or soil.

  1. Shape as a noun:

    The status or condition of something

    Examples:

    "The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book."

  2. Shape as a noun:

    Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

    Examples:

    "The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in."

    "We exercise to keep in good physical shape."

  3. Shape as a noun:

    The appearance of something, especially its outline.

    Examples:

    "He cut a square shape out of the cake."

    "What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?"

  4. Shape as a noun:

    Form; formation.

  5. Shape as a noun (iron manufacture):

    A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

  6. Shape as a noun (iron manufacture):

    A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

  7. Shape as a noun (cookery, now, rare):

    A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.

  8. Shape as a noun (programming):

    In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

  1. Shape as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, rare):

    To create or make.

    Examples:

    "Earth was shapen by God for God's folk."

  2. Shape as a verb (transitive):

    To give something a shape and definition.

    Examples:

    "'Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl."

  3. Shape as a verb:

    To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

  4. Shape as a verb:

    (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.

  5. Shape as a verb:

    To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  6. Shape as a verb (obsolete):

    To imagine; to conceive.

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