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MOULDS

"MOULDS" is a plural of: mould.

Date "MOULDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: MOULDS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Microscopic fungi which may infect casks, grapes or musts. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Moulds In the moulds. In the grave.
"After Sir John and her [the minister's wife] were ... baith in the moulds."- Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet (Letter xi.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MOULDS

Specialty definitions using "MOULDS": artificial resinbottom plate, bottom pouring platecast in vertical clamped moulds, casting plate, cinnamon fungusdie forgingingot millerjarrah diebackPhytophthora root rotshrinkage at early ageswildflower dieback. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MOULDS

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References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Converters, Ladles, and Ingot Moulds and Casting Machinery in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Converters, Ladles, and Ingot Moulds and Casting Machinery Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Converters, Ladles, and Ingot Moulds and Casting Machinery Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Converters, Ladles, and Ingot Moulds and Casting Machinery: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Mushrooms, Moulds and Miracles (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Converters, Ladles, and Ingot Moulds and Casting Machinery in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: MOULDS

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: MOULDS

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Giant at rest. A repairman mends one of the huge ladles in which molten steel is conveyed from the electric furnaces to the ingot moulds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Metal for munitions. Hot brass pours into moulds at an eastern Navy yard, rush foundary operations for greater U.S. fleet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: MOULDS

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Even ice begins with delicate crystal leaves, as if it had flowed into moulds which the fronds of waterplants have impressed on the watery mirror.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MOULDS

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

India

Import on Export Basis: New or second hand jigs, fixtures, dies (including contour roller dies), moulds (including moulds for die-casting), patterns, press tools and lasts, construction machinery, containers/ packages meant for packing of goods for export and other equipment, can be imported for export without a license by furnishing a Legal Undertaking/Bank Guarantee with the Customs Authorities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MOULDS

"MOULDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.68% of the time. "MOULDS" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)80.68%14226,554
Lexical Verb (-s form)11.93%2176,261
Noun (proper)7.39%1397,576
                    Total100.00%176N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: MOULDS

The following table summarizes the usage of "MOULDS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MouldsLast name30029,926
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: MOULDS

Expression using "MOULDS": cast in vertical clamped moulds. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "MOULDS": coin-moulds, re-moulds, slime-moulds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOULDS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moulds pottery uk

94

moulds steel

4

moulds

69

moulds resin

4

kent moulds paris plaster

65

fiberglass moulds

4

concrete moulds

28

moulds used

4

bullet moulds

24

glass moulds

4

chocolate moulds

19

injection moulds plastic

4

eric moulds

14

lyman bullet moulds

4

plaster moulds

13

chess moulds

4

injection moulds

10

bullet moulds rapine

4

cement moulds

8

east middle moulds

4

calzature moulds stampi

7

east middle moulds steel

4

moulds soap

6

moulds rotomoulding

4

ceramic moulds

6

moulds paris plaster

4

head metal moulds resin tassel wood

6

saeco bullet moulds

3

moulds for plastic

6

moulds sole

3

candle moulds

5

cowboy bullet and moulds

3

gnome moulds

5

component moulds

3

don moulds plantation

5

injection moulds rubber

3

latex moulds

4

candy moulds

3

metal moulds

4

cheese moulds

3

moulds rubber

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MOULDS

Language Translations for "MOULDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skimmelsvampe (moulds for the manufacture of penicillin), skimmelsvamp (fungi imperfecti, geotrichosis, Hyphomycetes), skimmel (fleur, flowers of wine, gray, grey, mildew, mould, white horse). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schimmel (mold, mould), Hyphomyceten (Hyphomycetes). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

homesieni (mould fungus), home (mildew, mould). (various references)

   

French

  

moisissures. (various references)

   

German

  

schimmelt, gießt (pours). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μούχλα (fungus, mildew, moldiness, mould, mouldiness, mustiness), ευρώτες. (various references)

   

Italian

  

muffe (Hyphomycetes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouldsmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

mofos, bolores. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плесень (mildew, mould, must, mustiness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mohos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mögel (mildew, Mold, mould, must). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: MOULDS

Misspellings

"MOULDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coulds, Miwurdz, moolds, mooould, mouclade, Moulas, Mouldes, muold. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MOULDS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MOULDS" (pronounced mō"ldz)
5m ō" l d zMolds.
4-ō" l d zbolds, colds, folds, golds, holds, olds, scolds, unfolds, upholds, withholds.
3-l d zairfields, battlefields, brownfields, builds, cornfields, emeralds, Faulds, fields, footholds, goldfields, guilds, hayfields, heralds, households, marigolds, minefields, rebuilds, scaffolds, scalds, shields, strongholds, thresholds, welds, wields, wilds, windshields, worlds, yields.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MOULDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-l-m-o-s-u"

-1 letter: doums, modus, molds, mould, solum.

-2 letters: dols, doms, doum, duos, loud, lums, mods, mold, mols, muds, olds, ouds, slum, sold, soul, sumo, udos.

-3 letters: dol, dom, dos, duo, lum, mod, mol, mos, mud, mus, ods, old, oms, oud, sod, sol, som, sou, sum, udo.

-4 letters: do, lo, mo, mu, od, om, os, so, um.

 Words containing the letters "d-l-m-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: modules, modulus, unmolds.

 

+2 letters: doldrums, emulsoid, hoodlums, modiolus, moulders, mudflows, mudholes, slumlord, smoulder.

 

+3 letters: drumrolls, emulsoids, lemuroids, limuloids, melodious, modulates, mouldiest, mouldings, outsmiled, slumlords, smoulders.

 

+4 letters: consumedly, cuddlesome, deutoplasm, dicumarols, dulcimores, emulsoidal, hoodlumish, hoodlumism, loudmouths, malodorous, modulators, outmuscled, plasmodium, smouldered, supermodel, unmolested.

 

+5 letters: calmodulins, caudillismo, clostridium, demodulates, deutoplasms, dicoumarols, duodecimals, gadoliniums, hoodlumisms, laundromats, lycopodiums, melodiously, modulations, molybdenums, murderously, musclebound, overmuscled, smouldering, stylopodium, subemployed, sulfonamide, supermodels, unemployeds, unfoldments, unmelodious.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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