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Definition: Moulder |
MoulderVerb1. Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moulder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | A worker that makes molds or produces molded articles: as a maker of founding molds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A planer equipped with 2 to 6 cutterblocks(generally 3 to 5), the side cutterblocks being staggered so that they can e. g. be angled to machine bevelled patterns. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Workman who makes moulds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MoulderSynonyms: decompose (v), molder (v), rot (v). (additional references) |
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 | Underway at sea off Mayport, Florida, with Carrier Air Group Ten (CAG-10) embarked, August 1960. Aircraft parked on the forward flight deck include F8U and F4D fighters, A4D and AD attack planes. Photographed by PH1 R.A. Moulder. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mrs. Sophie Deneby of Honolulu is shown sending a pattern while John Popanich, apprentice moulder, and Frank Chiaco, pattern maker, discuss the blue prints of a pattern. Both civil service workers are from Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Moulder at Correct Manufacturing Company. Fallston, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are supposed to moulder tranquilly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Moulder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Moulder" is used about 14 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 (singular) | 50% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "moulder" 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 |
| Moulder | Last name | 1,000 | 13,451 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "moulder": moulder away. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moulder | 21 |
planer moulder | 12 |
moulder wood | 4 |
john moulder brown | 4 |
injection moulder | 4 |
change moulder over set up | 4 |
feed manual moulder push | 3 |
knife moulder | 3 |
mattison moulder | 2 |
moulder spindle | 2 |
arch moulder | 2 |
alan moulder | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "moulder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | modelist (designer, molder, pattern maker, stylist), tryezë për formim (molder), thërrmohet (crumble, molder), shkretohet (molder), rrënohet (molder, smash), krijues (author, creative, creator, demiurge, implementing, maker, molder, original, originative, originator), formues (formative, former, molder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هتر (molder), تفسخ (decadence, decay, degeneracy, degenerate, degeneration, degradation, derogate, disintegrate, disintegration, molder, rot), تهرؤ (molder), تهرأ (fray, molder), تهدم (collapse, crumbling, falling, molder, ruin), تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), تلاشى (disappear, dissolve, drain, evanesce, evaporate, fade, fall, flee, fly, go to pieces, melt, molder, pass out of sight, peter, trail, vanish), تحلل (break down, disintegration, molder, moldiness, mouldiness, taint), تعفن (corruption, decay, decompose, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, mouldiness, mustiness, perish, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, rot, sweat), أبلى (frazzle, molder, outwear, scuff, wear, wear down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | създател (artificer, author, constitutor, creator, former, founder, generator, inventor, maker, molder, originator), разкапвам се (molder), разлагам се (decay, dissociate, rot), формовчик (molder), творец (architect, author, creator, former, maker, molder), загнивам (become rotten, molder, perish, rot), западам (come down, decay, dwindle, fail, falter, go back, molder, sag, sink, turn down), леяр (caster, founder, molder), плеснявам (molder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 翻 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trouchnivìt (decay, rot), tlít (decay, rot), slévaè (founder, molder), práchnivìt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kehlemaskine (molder), former. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vormer, lijstenbank (molder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaavaaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | moulurière (molder), mouliste (molder), mouleur, machine moulurer (molder), tomber en poussière, se moisir (mould), se désagréger (molder), se décomposer, s'évanouir, désagréger, dépérir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kehlmaschine (molder), Former (molder, shaper, shapers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταρρέω (cave in, collapse, crumble, fall in, molder, slump), σαπίζω (damp off, decay, decompose, molder, mortify, putrefy, rot), πλάστησ (creator, molder, plaster, rolling pin), τεχνίτης καλουπιών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תפורר (come apart, crumble, disintegrate, molder), ל"רקב (decay, molder, putrefy, rot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mintakészítõ (molder), mintázó (caster, modeler, modeller, molder), szétmállik (molder, to corrode, to moulder), alakító (fashioner, formative, impersonator, molder, shaping), öntõmunkás (founder, molder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | modanatrice (molder), formatore (framer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 'れる (to be stuffy, to moulder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むれる (to be stuffy, to crowd, to flock, to moulder, to swarm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mulleyder, molmaghey (friable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouldermay moldador (founder, molder, thrower), modelador (modeler, molder), máquina de moldurar (molder), tombar em ruínas (molder), pessoa que molda (molder), desfazer-se em pó (molder), apodrecer (decay, fester, molder, putrefy, rot, taint). (various references) turnãtor (caster, denunciator, founder, grass, molder, sneak, telltale), se preface în praf (molder), formar (molder). (various references) создатель (creator, father, impersonator, maker, molder, originator), рассыпаться (disperse, fall to pieces, molder, scat), разрушаться (break, crumble, decay, molder, wrack), формовщик (molder), творец (architect, author, demiurge, father, maker, molder), литейщик (caster, founder, foundry hand, molder), бездельничать (bum, dawdle, drone, fiddle about, fribble, idle, lallygag, laze, loaf, molder, sit back, twiddle, while the time away). (various references) modelar (modelist, molder, patternmaker), truleti (decay, molder), raspadati se u prah (molder). (various references) moldeador (molder, shaper). (various references) vittra (decompose, molder, weather), multna (decay, molder, rot), förmultna (decay, molder). (various references) ผู้หล่อ. (various references) kalıpçı (molder, pattern maker), dökmeci (molder), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), biçimlendirici (formative, former, molder), şekillendirici (molder), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil). (various references) розсипатися (molder, spill), розкладатися (canker, corrupt, decay, disintegrate, molder, putrefy, resolve, rot), формувальник (molder), творець (architect, author, creator, demiurge, father, former, maker, molder, original, originator, protoplast). (various references) thợ đúc (caster). (various references) adfeilio (become a ruin, decay, fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | plastae, plastes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "moulder": mouldered, mouldering, moulders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "moulder": smoulder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "moulder": smouldered, smouldering, smoulders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "moulder" (pronounced mō"lder) |
| 5 | m ō" l d er | molder, smolder. |
| 4 | -ō" l d er | beholder, bolder, boulder, colder, folder, Golder, Holder, older, polder, shoulder. |
| 3 | -l d er | Alder, balder, bewilder, bondholder, builder, cardholder, elder, fielder, freeholder, Gelder, Gilder, guilder, householder, infielder, landholder, melder, milder, officeholder, outfielder, policyholder, shareholder, shipbuilder, stakeholder, stockholder, titleholder, welder, wilder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-m-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: louder, loured, module, molder, remold. | |
-2 letters: demur, lemur, lured, model, morel, mould, muled, mured, odeum, older, oleum, ruled, uredo. | |
-3 letters: demo, derm, doer, dole, dome, dore, dorm, doum, dour, drum, duel, dure, duro, euro, leud, lode, lord, lore, loud, lour, lude, lure, meld, meou, merl, mode, mold, mole, more, moue, mule, mure, omer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-m-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: lemuroid, moulders, mouldier, smoulder. | |
+2 letters: clamoured, dulcimore, glamoured, lemuroids, mouldered, promulged, smoulders, turmoiled. | |
+3 letters: dulcimores, formulated, formulized, mouldering, smouldered, supermodel. | |
+4 letters: beglamoured, demodulator, glamourized, modularized, murderously, overmuscled, promulgated, smouldering, supermodels, ultramodern. | |
+5 letters: curmudgeonly, demodulators, formularized, malnourished, modularities, multicolored, multipronged, multistoried, multitowered, reformulated, somersaulted, tremendously, unformulated, unglamorized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 75 6C 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ..- .-.. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o u l d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0075 006C 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818778707184 |
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