different between molding vs shape

English

Alternative forms

• moulding (mainly UK)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??l.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo?l.d??/

Verb

molding

1. present participle of mold

Noun

molding (countable and uncountable, plural moldings) (American spelling)

1. The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
2. Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
3. (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
4. (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
5. (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
6. (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
7. (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

Translations

Anagrams

• Modglin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

molding m (definite singular moldingen, indefinite plural moldingar, definite plural moldingane)

1. Synonym of moldensar

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?p, IPA^(key): /?e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Etymology

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).

The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian skapa (“create”).

Noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

1. The status or condition of something

   The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.

2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

   The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.

   We exercise to keep in good physical shape.

3. The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.

   He cut a square shape out of the cake.

   What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?

4. Form; formation.
   • 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:

     What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?

5. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:

     ‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape.’

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:

     It was brawn and shape for high tea.

8. (gambling) A loaded die.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)

     A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.

9. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:shape

Hyponyms

• contest shape

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Forms and shapes

Verb

shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
   • 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?

     Which the mighty God of heaven shope.

2. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
   • 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa

     The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.

3. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
4. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
6. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

Synonyms

• (give shape): form, mold

Derived terms

• beshape
• foreshape
• forshape
• misshape
• overshape
• shape up

Translations

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• shape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shape at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, phase