WELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Weld mean? 

• WELD (noun)
  The noun WELD has 3 senses:

1. European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America

2. United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

3. a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together

  Familiarity information: WELD used as a noun is uncommon.

• WELD (verb)
  The verb WELD has 2 senses:

1. join together by heating

2. unite closely or intimately

  Familiarity information: WELD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dyer's mignonette; dyer's rocket; Reseda luteola; weld

Hypernyms ("weld" is a kind of...):

reseda (any plant of the genus Reseda)

Holonyms ("weld" is a member of...):

genus Reseda (Old World genus of herbs having racemose flowers: mignonette; dyer's rocket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Theodore Dwight Weld; Weld

Instance hypernyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("weld" is a kind of...):

joint (junction by which parts or objects are joined together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weld"):

spot-weld; spot weld (each of the welds made by welding at a separate point)

Derivation:

weld (join together by heating)

• WELD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they weld    ... he / she / it welds   
Past simple: welded   
Past participle: welded   
-ing form: welding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join together by heating

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

weld metal

Hypernyms (to "weld" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

"Weld" entails doing...:

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weld"):

spot-weld; spotweld (make circular welds)

butt-weld; buttweld (join by a butt weld)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

weld (a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together)

welder (joins pieces of metal by welding them together)

welding (fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure)

weldment (an assembly of parts welded together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unite closely or intimately

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Her gratitude welded her to him

Hypernyms (to "weld" is one way to...):

merge; unify; unite (join or combine)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Anchoring junctions typically are observed as "spot welds" between cells in many types of epithelia.

(Anchoring Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

By our lady! they have shown the French at Courtrai and elsewhere that they are as deft in wielding steel as in welding it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Specific types include: • Black lung disease among coal miners, from inhaling coal dust • Farmer's lung, from inhaling farm dust • Asbestosis, from inhaling asbestos fibers • Siderosis, from inhaling iron from mines or welding fumes • Silicosis, from inhaling silica dust

(Interstitial Lung Diseases, NIH)

Each struck fire from the other's shield, and each endured the jarring shock as though welded to the horse beneath him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)