Word Type
Mould can be a noun or a verb.
mould used as a noun:
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.W
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mould.
- The shape or pattern of a mould.
- General shape or form.
"the oval mould of her face" - Distinctive character or type.
"a leader in the mould of her predecessors" - A fixed or restrictive pattern or form
"His method of scientific investigation broke the mould and led to a new discovery." - See moulding.
- 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.
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
mould used as a verb:
- To shape in or on a mould.
- To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence; as, a teacher who helps to mould the minds of his students
- To fit closely by following the contours of.
- To make a mould of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
- To ornament with mouldings.
- To be shaped in or as if in a mould.
"These shoes gradually moulded to my feet."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is mould?
- Noun usage: the oval mould of her face
- Noun usage: a leader in the mould of her predecessors
- Noun usage: His method of scientific investigation broke the mould and led to a new discovery.
- Verb usage: These shoes gradually moulded to my feet.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of mould are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of mould, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
