CLAD (cladding)

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Irregular inflected form: cladding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does clad mean? 

• CLAD (adjective)
  The adjective CLAD has 2 senses:

1. wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

2. having an outer covering especially of thin metal

  Familiarity information: CLAD used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

Synonyms:

clad; clothed

Context example:

white-clad nurses

Similar:

appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed (dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination)

vestmented (dressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment)

uniformed (dressed in a uniform)

underdressed (inadequately or too informally clothed)

tuxedoed (dressed in a tuxedo)

turned out (dressed well or smartly)

togged (dressed especially in smart clothes)

surpliced (wearing a surplice)

suited (outfitted or supplied with clothing)

lobster-backed; red-coated (used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats)

petticoated (wearing or furnished with a petticoat)

overdressed (dressed too elaborately)

heavy-coated (wearing a heavy coat)

habited (dressed in a habit)

gowned (wearing a gown)

dolled up; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to kill; dressed to the nines; spiffed up; spruced up; togged up (dressed in fancy or formal clothing)

dighted (dressed or adorned (as for battle))

cowled (having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood)

costumed (dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class)

coated (having or dressed in a coat)

cassocked (dressed in a cassock)

caparisoned (clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings))

bundled-up (dressed warmly)

breeched; pantalooned; trousered (dressed in trousers)

arrayed; panoplied (in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia)

Also:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having an outer covering especially of thin metal

Context example:

armor-clad

Similar:

sheathed (enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

The blue lake and snow-clad mountains—they never change; and I think our placid home and our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I glanced at the hastily clad clergyman, with the formally dressed lodger seated beside him, and was amused at the surprise which Holmes’s simple deduction had brought to their faces.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Near to the pathway lay a long clump of greenery, and from behind this there stuck straight up into the air four human legs clad in parti-colored hosen, yellow and black.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The official received us with a very grave face and showed us into a sitting-room, where an exceedingly unkempt and agitated elderly man, clad in a flannel dressing-gown, was pacing up and down.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was not clad in uniform, but he wore a high-collared brown coat, with the right sleeve hanging limp and empty by his side.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Heinel found himself at the gates in a moment; but the guards would not let him go in, because he was so strangely clad.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)