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weld
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Word definitions for weld in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weld \Weld\, n. The state of being welded; the joint made by welding. Butt weld . See under Butt . Scarf weld , a joint made by overlapping, and welding together, the scarfed ends of two pieces.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 .
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 180936 Housing Units (2000): 66194 Land area (2000): 3992.446945 sq. miles (10340.389679 sq. km) Water area (2000): 29.110201 sq. miles (75.395072 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4021.557146 sq. miles (10415.784751 sq. km) Located within: ...
Usage examples of weld.
Before taking up running, Collins suffered from diabetic neuropathy in both feet, a condition that made his feet feel like wood, and his toes like they were all welded together.
Even her stepfather, who, since marrying her mother when Rachel was four, had worked his entire life at the welding job on the docks, earning barely enough to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.
But with feudalism and the welding of the nation, tribal democracies passed away, leaving, however, in many places a valuable tradition of local self-government.
Dixon of Bothell, an apprentice ironworker, apparently became entangled in a welding lead and fell from the 43rd story of the new building, which is scheduled for completion late next year.
The domed end of the one facing Kibbo was five meters high, weld seams between the metal petal segments clearly visible.
He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.
Lemelisk felt his heart sink into his paunchy stomach: a large section of the Darksaber outer framework was indeed assembled wrong, girders welded to incorrect counterparts.
He paused beside a bedstead welded together from a bunch of those pickaninny jockey-boys it had been against the law to have on your lawn in Knoxville.
And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
The scramjet tumbles in an uncontrolled dive, the spine of its overstressed airframe shattering, the pressurized cabin exploding along welding seams, breaking up a kilometer above the Pacific.
At 11 months she presented the opposite problem: Now her rhythms were all too stubbornly synchronized, welded to a particular 24-hour pattern that we happened to find oppressive.
The velocity of the heavier car swung the Mercedes into a centrifugal tailspin, almost welding it to the side of the Mafia vehicle in another shattering impact.
He started examining the swords one at a time, testing them for balance and trueness, bending them to check the temper of the metal, examining the hilts and guards for sound welding.
Anne of Bohemia, which would weld England and the Empire in an Urbanist axis.
Rather than weld it into place, they would chain it down, so that the grate would shake and the Wahoo divers would believe it was loose.