permanent mold

American  

noun

Metalworking.

1. a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.

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Example Sentences

After napping a permanent mold of my body into my mattress, I traded my bathrobe of fine polyester for a kitchen apron on which someone had spilled mashed potatoes.

From Salon

But Labor did have one grave objection to the "partnership" plan: to provide for separate assemblies of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, and to invite both the Turkish and Greek governments to share a kind of condominium with Britain was to freeze differences into a permanent mold, rather than to let them work themselves out.

From Time Magazine Archive