Mold vs Crimp - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
* J. Philips
(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
* Arbuthnot
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A coal broker.
(obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
(obsolete) A card game.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp.
To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches.
An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]
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To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
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As nouns the difference between mold and crimp
is that mold is a hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance or mold can be (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 or mold can be loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting while crimp is a fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts or crimp can be an agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc, especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them [since the passing of the merchant shipping act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this act, ie to a person other than the owner, master, etc, who engages seamen without a license from the board of trade].As verbs the difference between mold and crimp
is that mold is to shape in or on a mold or mold can be to cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon or mold can be to cover with mold or soil while crimp is to fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened or crimp can be to impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.As an adjective crimp is
(obsolete) easily crumbled; friable; brittle.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.
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)Derived terms
* moldy, mouldySee also
* mildewVerb
(en verb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) ‘flour’), from *mel''- (compare English ''meal ). More at meal.Derived terms
* leaf moldcrimp
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) crempen, from (etyl) .Germanic etymology. Cognate to Dutch krimpen, via Middle Dutch crimpen, to Low German crimpen,
Origins, p. 130, by Eric Partridge and to Faroese . From or cognate to Old Norse kreppa. Possible cognate to cramp.
Adjective
- Now the fowler treads the crimp earth.
- The evidence is crimp ; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.
Noun
(en noun)- The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp .
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Verb
(en verb)- He crimped the wire in place.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- When a master of a ship..has lost any of his hands, he applies to a crimp ..who makes it his business to seduce the men belonging to some other ship.
- Trepanned into the West India Company's service by the crimps or silver-coopers as a common soldier.
- Offering three guineas ahead to the crimps for every good able seaman.
- I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.
- Sallying forth at night..he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps .
- In the high and palmy days of the crimp , the pirate, the press-gang.
Verb
(en verb)- Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. — Carlyle.
- Plundering corn and crimping recruits.
- Clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.
- The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed.
- The Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo.
- Why not create customers in the Queen's dominions..instead of trying..to crimp them in other countries?