Moss vs Mold - What's the difference?
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Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly ).
(countable) A kind or species of such plants.
(informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
A bog; a fen.
To become covered with moss.
To cover (something) with moss.
A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
The shape or pattern of a mold.
General shape or form.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Crowned with an architrave of antique mould .
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold , like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
Distinctive character or type.
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A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
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(lb) A group of moldings.
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(lb) A fontanelle.
To shape in or on a mold.
To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
* Job 10:8-9, Old Testament , New International Version:
To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence; as, a teacher who helps to mold the minds of his students
To fit closely by following the contours of.
To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
To ornament with moldings.
To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
(senseid)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.
To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
In intransitive terms the difference between moss and mold
is that moss is to become covered with moss while mold is to become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.In transitive terms the difference between moss and mold
is that moss is to cover (something) with moss while mold is to cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.As a proper noun Moss
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English
(wikipedia moss)Noun
- Spanish moss'''; Irish '''moss'''; club '''moss .
- the mosses of the Scottish border
Usage notes
* The plural form mosses'' is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular ''moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.Hyponyms
* (simple plant) alga, cryptogam, lichenHypernyms
* (Bryophyta) bryophyteDerived terms
* (Tillandsia usneoides ) * (Bryozoa) * (Bartramia spp. ) * a rolling stone gathers no moss * et al) * black moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * bog moss * ) * carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus ) * * ) * ) * ) * club moss, club-moss, (club-foot moss) (Lycopodiaceae) * ) * ) * ) * enmoss * ) * * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * ) * head moss * ) * ) * Iceland moss () * idle-moss * Irish moss (Chondrus crispus ) * ) * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * moss-agate * moss animal, (Bryozoa) * moss-back, mossback * moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed * moss-bag * moss-bank * moss-basket * moss-bass * ) * moss-berry, (Vaccinium oxycoccos ) * (Botaurinae) * moss-box * ) * moss-carder, ) * ) * spp. ) * (Bryozoa) * ) * * ) * moss-earth * mossed * mosser * mossery * moss-fiber, moss-fibre * moss-flow * moss frog (Rhacophoridae) * mossful * moss-gold () * moss green * moss-grown, mossgrown * moss-hag, moss-hagg * moss-hagger * * moss-head * * moss-house * mossify * mossland * mossless * moss-litter * ) * moss-oak * moss opal * moss-peat * ) * mossplant * (Bryozoa) * moss-rake * moss-reeve * ) * ) * moss-seat * moss-starch * moss stitch * moss-tenant * moss-trooper * mosstroopery * moss-trooping * moss-whin () * ) * moss-wood * moss-work * mossy * oak moss * pearl moss (Chondrus crispus ) * peat-moss * ) * reindeer moss () * * ) * * * ''spp. ) * snake moss () * Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * spike moss (Selaginellaceae) * ) * tree-moss * unmossed * white mossVerb
- An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
See also
* muscoidReferences
* A New English dictionary on historical principles , Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908,pages 684-6----
mold
English
(wikipedia mold)Alternative forms
* mould (Commonwealth spelling)Etymology 1
Via (etyl) and (etyl), from (etyl) modulusNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* break the mold * (archaeology) post mold * (paleontology) fossil moldVerb
(en verb)- Your hands shaped me and made me....Remember that you molded me like clay.
- These shoes gradually molded to my feet.
