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
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Mold as a noun:
A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
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Mold as a noun:
A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
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Mold as a noun:
Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
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Mold as a noun:
The shape or pattern of a mold.
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Mold as a noun:
General shape or form.
Examples:
"the oval mold of her face"
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Mold as a noun:
Distinctive character or type.
Examples:
"a leader in the mold of her predecessors"
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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."
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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"
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Mold as a noun (anatomy):
A fontanelle.
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To fit closely by following the contours of.
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To ornament with moldings.
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Mold as a verb (intransitive):
To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
Examples:
"These shoes gradually molded to my feet."
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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.
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Mold as a verb (transitive):
To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
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Mold as a verb (intransitive):
To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
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Mold as a noun:
Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
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Mold as a noun (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural):
Earth, ground.
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Mold as a verb:
To cover with mold or soil.
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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."
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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."
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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?"
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Shape as a noun:
Form; formation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shape as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, rare):
To create or make.
Examples:
"Earth was shapen by God for God's folk."
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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."
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Shape as a verb:
To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
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Shape as a verb:
(of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
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Shape as a verb:
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Shape as a verb (obsolete):
To imagine; to conceive.