Clad

Definition: Clad

Clad

Adjective

1. Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses".

2. Having an outer covering especially of thin metal; "steel-clad"; "armor-clad".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Clad \Clad\, v.t To clothe. [Obsolete]. (references)

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Synonym: Clad

Clothing

Adjective: invested; Verb: habited; dighted; barbed, barded; clad, costume, shod, chausse; en grande tenue; (show).

Crosswords: Clad

You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant you were rehearsing for a play (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

I wouldn't stone clad my house it would look like a white filling in a mouth full of rotten teeth (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss)

Talk about your iron clad contract (Runaway Brain; writing credit: Tim Hauser)

Clad in black (Get It On; performing artist: T Rex)

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References

• The World Market for Waste and Scrap of Precious Metal or of Metal Clad with Precious Metal Excluding Gold Clad and Gold Waste and Scrap: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Clean, clad, and courteous : a history of Aboriginal education in New South Wales (reference)

• First Iron Clad Naval Engagement in the World: The Merrimac and the Monitor (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• KitchenAid Hi-Density Hard Anodized Clad 7-Piece Cookware Set (reference)

• KitchenAid Five-Ply Stainless Steel Clad 9-Piece Cookware Set (reference)

• KitchenAid Hi-Density Hard Anodized Clad 13-Inch Brasier with Lid (reference)

• Circulon Style Clad 2.5-Quart Covered Chafing Dish w/Rack & Fuel Holder (reference)

• Farberware Millennium Stainless Copper Clad 10-Piece Ultimate Cookware Set (reference)

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Colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862, entitled "The Sinking of the 'Cumberland' by the Iron Clad 'Merrimac', off Newport News, Va., March 8th 1862. 'Cumberland' went down with all her Flags flying: -- destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris calling to his crew 'Given them a Broadside boys, as she goes'.". Credit: NAVY.

Color lithograph by J.H. Bufford after an original drawing by William Jefferson, circa 1864. It is entitled "The United Stated Iron Clad Monitor 'Kickapoo' of the Miss. Squadron. David G. Woods, Commanding, Sept. 1864" and is dedicated to Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter by William Jefferson. Credit: NAVY.

Again the sharp slicer was raised in the breeze when Senator Capper, clad in a wrapper, came ... Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Army in final drive on Guadalcanal. American soldiers, clad in the briefest clothing because of intense heat, blast away at the few remaining enemy positions left on Guadalcanal in the Solomons during the final offensive which led to liberation of th. Credit: Library of Congress.

Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862, in which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole " school" of Rebel steamers. Credit: Library of Congress.

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On this public holiday, as on all other occasions, for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse grey cloth

The old convict Brevet was clad in the black and grey jacket of the central prisons

These people were not so well clad as the first, whose servants or laborers they seemed to be.

This frame, so slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on the builder

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Expressions using "clad": appareled attired clad dressed garbed garmented habilimented robed ♦ clad ballooning ♦ clad in ♦ clad in steel ♦ clad metal ♦ internally clad hemispherical head ♦ iron clad ♦ scantily clad. Additional references.

Ending with "clad": bikini-clad, black-clad, copper-clad, creeper-clad, dark-clad, darkly-clad, grey-clad, heather-clad, ill-clad, iron-clad, ivy-clad, khaki-clad, leather-clad, scantily-clad, tree-clad, well-clad, white-clad.

Containing "clad": mail-clad mailed.

Albanian

i veshur (clothed, dressed, used, vestured, worn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لابس. (various references)

Chinese 

穿. (various references)

Czech

obleèený. (various references)

Danish

kapsling (can, canning, cladding, enclosure, jacket, sheath), indkapsling (assembly, can, canning, case, cladding, encapsulation, enclosure, enclosures, information hiding, in-ground encapsulation, jacket, packaging, sealing, sheath), afskærmet (boarded). (various references)

Dutch

huls (base, bush, can, canning, cap, case, chuck, chuck bush, chuck bushing, cladding, core, harness, jacket, mandrel, sheath, tube, wrapper), bus (autobus, bus, can, drum, hub, letterbox, mailbox, motorbus, nave, omnibus, tin, tin can), bekleed (profiled), bekleding (cover, protective cover). (various references)

Farsi 

ملبس(بازگشت شودبه clothe), مزین (Ornate). (various references)

Finnish

verhottu, suojattu (sheltered), polttoaineen suojakuori (can, canning, cladding, jacket, sheath), peitetty, päällystetty. (various references)

French

capsulé, revêtu, plaquer, nippé, habillé (clotted), gaine (cladding, fiber cladding, fiber optics cladding, fibre cladding, fibre optics cladding, optical fiber cladding, optical fibre cladding). (various references)

German

kaschiert (conceals), gekleidet (clothed, endued, garbed). (various references)

Greek 

ντυμένοσ, περίβλημα (gasket, integument, jacket, shield), ενδεδυμένοσ (robed), επενδυμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפורזל (iron clad). (various references)

Hungarian

felruház (apparel, garb, invest, to adorn, to clothe, to commission, to gift, to invest, to vest), felöltöztet (to apparel, to clothe, to rig, to rig out, tog, vesture), öltöztet (attire, clothe, dress, to accoutre, to apparel, to attire, to clothe, to garb). (various references)

Italian

rivestito (ermined). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飽食暖衣 (being well fed and well clad), 纏う (to be clad in, to put on, to wear), 着膨れる (to be thickly clad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きぶくれる (to be thickly clad), まとう (to be clad in, to put on, to wear), ほうしょくだに (being well fed and well clad). (various references)

Korean 

입히는 (Coated). (various references)

Manx

coamrit (clothed, finished). (various references)

Pig Latin

adclay.(various references)

Portuguese

coberto (covered, overgrown, sheeted, vestured, wreathed), vestido (breast, dressed, garment, gown, robe, toilet, vest, vestured), revestimento (boarding, case, casing, clothing, encasement, finish, jacket, liner, lining, revetment, sheath, slipover), revestido (lined), bainha (case, edging, fell, hem, holder, husk, lap, pod, scabbard, seam, sheath, socket, underdress). (various references)

Romanian

trecut şi participiu trecut de la clothe, îmbrãcat (dressing). (various references)

Russian 

одевать одетый (togged). (various references)

Spanish

vaina (husk, pod, scabbard, seedcase, sheath, shell, shuck, take), revestido (lagging), recubierto (bloomed, coated, overburden), pret y pp de clothe. (various references)

Swedish

klädd (dressed, lined), kapsling (assembly, can, canning, canning process, cladding, cladding process, enclosure, jacket, nesting, sealing, sheath, shield), avskärmad. (various references)

Thai

ที่แต่งตัว. (various references)

Turkish

sarılmış (convolute, wrapped up, wrapt up), örtülü (buried, coated, covered, covert, mantled, masked, muffled, shut, submerged, submersed, thick with, under cover, veiled, wrapped). (various references)

Ukrainian

убраний, одягнений (dressed, vested). (various references)

indutus. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "clad": cladding, claddings, clade, clades, cladist, cladistic, cladistically, cladistics, cladists, cladoceran, cladocerans, cladode, cladodes, cladodial, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, cladogenetic, cladogenetically, cladogram, cladograms, cladophyll, cladophylla, cladophylls, cladophyllum, clads. (additional references)

Words ending with "clad": ironclad, reclad, thinclad, triclad, unclad. (additional references)

Words containing "clad": ironclads, phylloclade, phylloclades, thinclads, triclads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Clad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acad, alad, caad, calax, cald, caldo, Ccaod, cd, cfla, ciad, cla, claad, Clac, clade, clads, clady, Clai, claid, cland, clar, clard, clat, clau, claud, clav, clawd, clax, cld, clead, Cleady, clec, Cled, clede, cledo, clev, clid, clide, clir, cliv, Cload, clomd, clowd, clud, clumd, coad, cpld, crad, csad, cullad, Ecld, kald, lcat, lcd, Mcglade, sclad, slad, uclad. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cad, dal, lac, lad.

-2 letters: ad, al, la.

+1 letter: acold, alcid, cauld, clade, clads, decal, ducal, laced, scald.

+2 letters: acidly, alcade, alcids, cabled, calked, called, calmed, calved, candle, caudal, caudle, caulds, cedula, clades, clawed, clayed, coaled, colead, cradle, credal, dactyl, decals, declaw, ductal, lacked, lanced, macled, placed, placid, reclad, scalds, scaled, talced, unclad.

+3 letters: acaudal, acridly, alcades, alcaide, alcalde, alcayde, alcoved, baldric, belaced, blacked, cabildo, cackled, cacodyl, cadelle, cajoled, calando, caldera, caldron, calends, calqued, canaled, candela, candled, candler, candles, carload, caroled, castled, caudles, caulked, caviled, cedilla, cedulas, celadon, chalcid, chalked, chiliad, chordal, citadel, clacked, cladist, cladode, clagged, claimed, clammed, clamped, clanged, clanked, clapped, clashed, clasped, classed, cleaned, cleared, cleated, cleaved, cloaked, codable, coleads, collard, cordial, cotidal, craaled, cradled, cradler, cradles, crawled, creedal, dactyli, dactyls, daglock, debacle, decadal, decalog, decanal, decimal, declaim, declare, declass, declaws, decrial, deltaic, dewclaw, dialect, domical, ducally, edictal, enlaced, flaccid, flacked, glaceed, glanced, hackled, incudal, inlaced, latched, leached, located, mackled, maculed, medical, nodical, padlock, palaced, pedocal, placard, placoid, radical, radicel, radicle, relaced, scalade, scalado, scalded, scaldic, scalped, scandal, skaldic, slacked, solaced, tackled, talcked, triclad, unlaced, wildcat.