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"MOULDS" is a plural of: mould. |
Date "MOULDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: MOULDS |
| Specialty definitions using "MOULDS": artificial resin ♦ bottom plate, bottom pouring plate ♦ cast in vertical clamped moulds, casting plate, cinnamon fungus ♦ die forging ♦ ingot miller ♦ jarrah dieback ♦ Phytophthora root rot ♦ shrinkage at early ages ♦ wildflower dieback. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 80.68% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 11.93% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.39% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Moulds | Last name | 300 | 29,926 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MOULDS" (pronounced mō"ldz) |
| 5 | m ō" l d z | Molds. |
| 4 | -ō" l d z | bolds, colds, folds, golds, holds, olds, scolds, unfolds, upholds, withholds. |
| 3 | -l d z | airfields, 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. | ||
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. | |
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