Mold vs Sprue - What's the difference?
mold | sprue |
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.
(medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
(founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
As nouns the difference between mold and sprue
is that mold is a hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance or mold can be 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 sprue is (medicine) a tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis or sprue can be (founding) the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.As a verb 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.mold
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(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.
