mismoldとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• mismould

動詞

mismold (三人称単数 現在形 mismolds, 現在分詞 mismolding, 過去形および過去分詞形 mismolded)

1. To mold improperly, producing an unintended result.
   • 1948, William Samuel Sadler, Adolescence Problems, page 82:

     Overindulgence in certain "malignant” or disabling wishes, and for them parents and teachers should early be on guard, is likely to deform or mismold the personality.

   • 1989, Environmental Ethics, page 34:

     It is possible then that Commoner believes that the essential character of modern science has been mismolded by the "vested interests" of its practitioners, and their relations to major segments of society—a curious political materialism for one who is so skeptical of simplistic scientific materialism.

   • 2004, Edward Jae-Suk Lee, The Good Man, page 84:

     All those days of grinding it out on the road, all those highway bumps and the hours in that vibrating cab had mismolded his body, compacting his organs down along his waist and padding that cargo with sedentary fat, so that he'd taken on the appearnace of a pear with legs.

   • 2006, Gloria S. Merker, The Greek Tile Works at Corinth, page 21:

     The same can be said of the altar 151, which was fired even though seriously mismolded.

名詞

mismold (複数形 mismolds)

1. The act of mismolding.
   • 1976, Water Spectrum - Volumes 8-11, page 32:

     Hydrostructionists, for this reason, have shifted to the use of imperfect concrete pipe, which is culled from construction damaged items or factory mismolds, with a great deal of success.