different between sculpture vs mould

English

Etymology

From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?lpt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
• Hyphenation: sculp?ture

Noun

sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

1. (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

   • There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

2. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
3. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.

Translations

Verb

sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)

1. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

Translations

Related terms

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
• Homophone: sculptures

Noun

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

1. sculpture

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• sculpteur

Latin

Participle

sculpt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus

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