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Jig vs Mold - What's the difference?

jig | mold |

As nouns the difference between jig and mold

is that jig is a light, brisk musical movement; a gigue while mold is a hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.

As verbs the difference between jig and mold

is that jig is to move briskly, especially as a dance while mold is to shape in or on a mold.

jig

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
  • A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
    • they danced a jig
  • * 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
    • Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig , and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
  • A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
  • (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
  • A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
    • Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .
  • (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
  • (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
  • * (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
    • A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.
  • (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
  • * (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

    Derived terms

    * the jig is up * dance the hempen jig

    Verb

  • To move briskly, especially as a dance.
    • The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor
  • (fishing) To fish with a jig.
  • To sing to the tune of a jig.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
  • To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
    • (Ford)
  • (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
  • To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

    • mold

    English

    (wikipedia mold)

    Alternative forms

    * mould (Commonwealth spelling)

    Etymology 1

    Via (etyl) and (etyl), from (etyl) modulus

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Crowned with an architrave of antique mould .
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
  • :
  • (lb) A group of moldings.
  • :
  • (lb) A fontanelle.
    • Derived terms
    * break the mold * (archaeology) post mold * (paleontology) fossil mold

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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:
    • Your hands shaped me and made me....Remember that you molded me like clay.
  • 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.
    • These shoes gradually molded to my feet.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, 'slick, soft'. More at muck and meek.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * moldy, mouldy
    See also
    * mildew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ‘flour’), from *mel''- (compare English ''meal ). More at meal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
    • Derived terms
    * leaf mold

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with mold or soil.
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