Noun

• S: (n) molding, moulding (a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing)
• S: (n) molding, moulding, border (a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge)
• S: (n) mold, mould, molding, moulding, modeling, clay sculpture (sculpture produced by molding)
• S: (n) modeling, modelling, molding, moulding (a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied)

Verb

• S: (v) model, mold, mould (form in clay, wax, etc) "model a head with clay"
• S: (v) cast, mold, mould (form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold) "cast a bronze sculpture"
• S: (v) shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge (make something, usually for a specific function) "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
• verb group
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) carve (form by carving) "Carve a flower from the ice"
• S: (v) hew, hew out (make or shape as with an axe) "hew out a path in the rock"
• S: (v) rough-hew, roughcast (hew roughly, without finishing the surface) "rough-hew stone or timber"
• S: (v) sculpt, sculpture, grave (shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it) "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
• S: (v) fret (carve a pattern into)
• S: (v) honeycomb (carve a honeycomb pattern into) "The cliffs were honeycombed"
• S: (v) swage, upset (form metals with a swage)
• S: (v) chip (form by chipping) "They chipped their names in the stone"
• S: (v) layer (make or form a layer) "layer the different colored sands"
• S: (v) cut out (form and create by cutting out) "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper"
• S: (v) gouge out (make gouges into a surface) "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor"
• S: (v) rabbet (cut a rectangular groove into)
• S: (v) die, die out (cut or shape with a die) "Die out leather for belts"
• S: (v) machine (turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery)
• S: (v) grind (shape or form by grinding) "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
• S: (v) stamp (form or cut out with a mold, form, or die) "stamp needles"
• S: (v) puddle (subject to puddling or form by puddling) "puddle iron"
• S: (v) beat (shape by beating) "beat swords into ploughshares"
• S: (v) forge, hammer (create by hammering) "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
• S: (v) foliate (hammer into thin flat foils) "foliate metal"
• S: (v) dropforge (forge with a dropforge) "drop-force the metal"
• S: (v) preform (form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand)
• S: (v) preform (form into a shape resembling the final, desired one)
• S: (v) mound (form into a rounded elevation) "mound earth"
• S: (v) mound over (form a mound over)
• S: (v) hill (form into a hill)
• S: (v) roughcast (shape roughly)
• S: (v) reshape, remold (shape again or shape differently)
• S: (v) sinter (cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting)
• S: (v) cast, mold, mould (form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold) "cast a bronze sculpture"
• S: (v) press, press out (press from a plastic) "press a record"
• S: (v) recast, remold, remould (cast again) "The bell cracked and had to be recast"
• S: (v) sand cast (pour molten metal into a mold of sand)
• S: (v) throw (make on a potter's wheel) "she threw a beautiful teapot"
• S: (v) handbuild, hand-build, coil (make without a potter's wheel) "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
• S: (v) sculpt, sculpture (create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material) "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"
• S: (v) model, mold, mould (form in clay, wax, etc) "model a head with clay"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
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