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Mould vs Foreshape - What's the difference?

mould | foreshape |

As nouns the difference between mould and foreshape

is that mould is (british|canadian|australian) while foreshape is that which is shaped in advance.

As verbs the difference between mould and foreshape

is that mould is (british|canadian|australian) while foreshape is to shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.

mould

English

Etymology

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, Canadian, Australian)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, Canadian, Australian)
  • foreshape

    English

    Verb

  • To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
  • *1867 , The British controversialist and literary magazine - Page 403:
  • Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.
  • *1998 , J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79 :
  • What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.
  • *2002 , Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80 :
  • Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord [...]

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is shaped in advance.
  • A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
  • *1982 , Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, Volume 1018, Issue 1 - Page 158:
  • [...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]