moulder
A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks,…A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
» You are a mouldering wreck.
Ты трухлявая развалина.
Значение
значений: 7(Британия, шире)A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
(Британия, шире)An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
(Британия, шире, переносно)A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
(Британия)A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
(Британия, архаичное)A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
(Британия, устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
(Британия, устаревшее, редкое, неисчисляемое)Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)
Примеры
предложений: 2You are a mouldering wreck.
Ты трухлявая развалина.
Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.
Происхождение
Partly from the following: Probably a variant of mould (“loose, friable soil”), influencePartly from the following:
Probably a variant of mould (“loose, friable soil”), influenced by moulder (“to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces, etc.”) (etymology 1).
Probably a variant of mould (“furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi”), influenced by moulder (“to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces, etc.”) (etymology 1).
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