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jig
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?g; IPA(key): /d????/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
An assimilated form of earlier gig, from Middle English gigge, from Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *g?ge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *g?gan? (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ey??-, *g?eyg?- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch ghighe (“fiddle”), German Geige (“fiddle, violin”), Danish gige (“fiddle”), Icelandic gígja (“fiddle”). More at gig, geg.
Noun
jig (plural jigs)
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
- (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
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- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo is derived from jig (“dance”).
Noun
jig (plural jigs)
- (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
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mold
English
Alternative forms
- mould (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling)
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?ld, m?ld
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??ld/, /m??ld/
- (US) IPA(key): /mo?ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin modulus, from Latin modus. Doublet of module and model.
Noun
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
- The shape or pattern of a mold.
- General shape or form.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, "The Temple of Fame", in The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin, Volume 1, J.Murray, p.206
- Crowned with an architrave of antique mould.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, "The Temple of Fame", in The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin, Volume 1, J.Murray, p.206
- Distinctive character or type.
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
- (architecture) A group of moldings.
- (anatomy) A fontanelle.
Derived terms
- break the mold
- (archaeology): post mold
- (paleontology): fossil mold
Translations
Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- 1978, Job 10:8-9, Old Testament, New International Version:
- Your hands shaped me and made me?… Remember that you molded me like clay.
- 1978, Job 10:8-9, Old Testament, New International Version:
- (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
- 1963. Haile Selassie (translated)
- It is you who must mold the minds of your students that they may be wise, farsighted, intelligent, profound in their thinking, devoted to their country and government and fruitful in their work. It is you who must sense as the example.
- 1963. Haile Selassie (translated)
- (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
- (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
- (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
- (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
- These shoes gradually molded to my feet.
Translations
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
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)
- A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
Derived terms
- moldy, mouldy
- moulder
Translations
See also
- mildew
Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
- (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
Etymology 3
From Old English molde, from Proto-Germanic *muld? ‘dirt, soil’ (compare Old Frisian molde, Middle Dutch moude, Dutch moude, obsolete German Molte, Norwegian Bokmål mold), from Proto-Indo-European *ml?-t? (compare Old Irish moll ‘bran’, Lithuanian mìltai ‘flour’), from *mel- (compare English meal). More at meal.
Noun
mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds)
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- (Britain, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.
Alternative forms
- mool
Derived terms
- leaf mold
- vegetable mold
Translations
Verb
mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)
- To cover with mold or soil.
Anagrams
- LMDO
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? ‘dirt, soil’, from Proto-Indo-European *ml?-t?, from *mel-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m?lt]
Noun
mold f (genitive singular moldar, uncountable)
- (agriculture) earth, humus soil, humus layer
- tá myndaði Harrin Guð mannin av mold jarðar
- And the Lord God formed man of the soil of the ground (Genesis 2,7)
- tá myndaði Harrin Guð mannin av mold jarðar
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
mold f (genitive singular moldar, nominative plural moldir)
- dirt, mould, humus, ground, earth
Declension
Middle English
Noun
mold
- Alternative form of molle (“mole”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse mold (“earth, dirt, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“mould, soil, dirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), from *mel- (“to rub”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /m?l?/
Noun
mold f or m (definite singular molda or molden, uncountable)
- humus, earth, soil, topsoil
Alternative forms
- muld
References
- “mold” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “mold” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld?.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /m?l?/
Noun
mold f (definite singular molda, uncountable)
- humus, earth, soil, topsoil
References
- “mold” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Old English molde (English mold), Old High German molta, Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /mõld/
Noun
mold f (genitive moldar, plural moldir)
- earth, dirt, soil
- V?luspá, verse 2
- V?luspá, verse 2
Declension
Descendants
References
- mold in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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