different between classification vs mould

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?ld/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

Via Middle English molde, moulde and Old French molde, from Latin modulus.

Noun

mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“hollow form or matrix”)

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Verb

mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to shape in a mould”)

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Etymology 2

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *mugl?n?, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

Noun

mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”)

Translations

Verb

mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”)

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).

Noun

mould (plural moulds)

1. loose soil, esp when rich in organic matter
2. (poetic) the earth