different between mould vs engrave

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”)

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 shape in a mould”)

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

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

English

Alternative forms

• ingrave

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Hyphenation: en?grave

Etymology 1

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- +? grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

   • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

2. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (carve (text or symbols) into): carve, etch, inscribe

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- +? grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

Anagrams

• Grevena, avenger, vernage

French

Verb

engrave

1. first-person singular present indicative of engraver
2. third-person singular present indicative of engraver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
5. second-person singular imperative of engraver

Anagrams

• vengera