weld
pronunciation
How to pronounce weld in British English:
UK [weld]
How to pronounce weld in American English:
US [weld]
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- Noun:
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
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- Verb:
- join together by heating
- unite closely or intimately
Word Origin
- weld
- weld: [16] Weld is ultimately the same verb as well (as in ‘The tears welled up in his eyes’). This originally meant ‘boil, melt’, but in the 15th century (perhaps under the influence of Swedish välla ‘gush, weld’) it began to be used for ‘fuse metal by heating’. Weld itself presumably arose from the use of the past form welled as a present form.=> well
- weld (n.2)
- "joint formed by welding," 1831, from weld (v.).
- weld (v.)
- 1590s, "unite or consolidate by hammering or compression, often after softening by heating," alteration of well (v.) "to boil, rise;" influenced by past participle form welled. Related: Welded; welding.
- weld (n.1)
- plant (Resedo luteola) producing yellow dye, late 14c., from Old English *wealde, perhaps a variant of Old English wald "forest" (see wold). Spanish gualda, French gaude are Germanic loan-words.
Example
- 1. The din is deafening as workers hammer and weld the parts together .
- 2. Today , they want to weld it to reopen it again some time later .
- 3. Low-power lasers can cut and weld plastics ; higher-power lasers can cut and weld metals .
- 4. These pieces were hot enough to weld together to make the hard layers seen today .
- 5. Inside the gated compound , workers in tarred jerseys and goggles weld and drive screws .