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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)

 

Specialty Definition: Clad

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

= cladding. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Covered and externally protected with metal sheets, wood panels, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

The external layer of material applied directly to a nuclear fuel or other material, to provide protection from a chemically reactive environment, to provide containment of radioactive products produced during the irradiation of the composite or to provide structural support. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Clad

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

When the United States Mint removed the silver from circulating US coinage, they faced a technical challenge. Many vending machines depended upon both the size and the electrical conductivity of the coins to determine if they were counterfeit or similarly sized foreign coins.

After much testing, they came up with an innovative solution. By making a sandwich of two layers of a nickel alloy with a copper core, they were able to duplicate the electrical conductivity of the 90% silver 10% copper coins.

The new clad dime and quarter were available in 1965, the half went through a brief period of reduced (40%) silver clad composition and became full cupro-nickel clad in 1971. When the Silver dollar came back into production in 1971, it was also produced as a clad coin.

The removal of silver from the circulating coinage of the United States led to one of the greatest silver booms of all time in the late 1970s. See also fiat money.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clad."

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Synonym: Clad

Synonym: clothed (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: unclothed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Clad

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Clothing

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

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Clad

English words defined with "clad": Anemia adiantifoliaBeseenclothed, CopedHeathcladImmailedMailcladpine fern, Pine-crowned. (references)
Specialty definitions using "clad": ChristianGown, Green Maninternally clad hemispherical headLINER ASSEMBLER, LobstersMachbanai, MarthaPastrolled metalWhite Brethren. (references)

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Modern Usage: Clad

DomainUsage

Screenplays

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)

Lyrics

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

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

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Commercial Usage: Clad

DomainTitle

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)

    (more reference examples)

  

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)

    (more book examples)

  

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)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Clad

Illustrations:
Clad

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Photo Album: Clad

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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.

  

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Clad
 

"Rhomboid building" by Roger Mexico
Commentary: "Shot of bank building with clad in an iron texture."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Clad

AuthorQuotation

Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

William Jennings Bryan

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Clad

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Clad

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Clad

"Clad" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 81.63% of the time. "Clad" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)81.63%8037,112
Lexical Verb (past tense)17.35%1785,106
Adjective (general or positive)1.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%98N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Clad

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.

Hypenated Usage

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.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clad

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

all clad

774

iron clad

12

all clad cookware

131

clad pac

12

all clad pan

127

bikini clad

12

clad dvd

122

clad window

11

all clad pot

86

clad una

11

clad scantily

36

all clad sale

11

clad scantily woman

28

book clad econo

10

clad dvd xp

24

certificate clad

9

aluminum clad window

22

al clad

9

all clad discount

18

all clad ii

9

camo clad

17

discount all clad cookware

9

bikini clad woman

17

all clad copper

9

all clad stainless

17

clad scantilly

8

all clad copper core

16

all clad wholesale

8

all clad pot and pan

16

clad leg nylon

8

all clad outlet

16

bikini clad babe

7

vinyl clad window

16

clad dvd download

7

all clad ltd

12

all clad copper core cookware

7

metal clad

12

clad xp

6

clad wood window

12

clad test

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clad

Language Translations for "clad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Clad

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

indutus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Clad

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintPaV gar mequsoV kai pornokopoV ptwceusei kai endusetai dierrhgmena kai rakwdh paV upnwdhV
Latin405VulgateQuia vacantes potibus et dantes symbola consumentur et vestietur pannis dormitatio
Middle English1395WyclifFor thei tendende to drinkis, and yiuende scot, shul ben wastid, and napping shal be clad with clothis.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Basic English1964OgdenFor those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Clad

LanguageProverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21
CebuanoKay ang palahubog ug ang ulitan modangat sa kawalad-on; Ug ang pagkahingatulog magapasaput sa usa ka tawo sa mga nuog.
Croatianjer pijanica i izjelica osiromaše i pospanac se oblaèi u krpe.
Danishthi Dranker og Frådser forarmes, Søvn giver lasede Klæder.
DutchWant een zuiper en vraat zal arm worden; en de sluimering doet verscheurde klederen dragen.
FinnishSillä juomari ja syömäri köyhtyy, ja unteluus puettaa ryysyihin.
FrenchCar l`ivrogne et celui qui se livre à des excès s`appauvrissent, Et l`assoupissement fait porter des haillons.
Germandenn die Säufer und Schlemmer verarmen, und ein Schläfer muß zerrissene Kleider tragen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-harisebab mereka akan menjadi miskin. Jika engkau tidur saja, maka tak lama lagi engkau akan berpakaian compang-camping.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamakarena seorang pemabuk dan gelojoh akan kepapaan kelak, dan suka mengantuk itu mengenakan pakaian compang-camping kepada orang.
Italianperché l'ubriacone e il ghiottone impoveriranno e il dormiglione si vestirà di stracci.
MaoriNo te mea ka tutuki tahi te tangata inu raua ko te tangata kakai ki te rawakore; he tawhetawhe hoki te kakahu a te momoe mo te tangata.
NorwegianFor drankeren og fråtseren blir fattig, og søvn klær mannen i filler.
PortuguesePorque o beberrão e o comilão caem em pobreza; e a sonolência cobrirá de trapos o homem.   
RumanianCqci beyivul wi cel ce se dedq la kmbuibare sqrqcesc, wi ayipirea te face sq poryi zdrenye.
RussianРПФПНХ ЮФП РШСОЙГБ Й РТЕУЩЭБАЭЙКУС ПВЕДОЕАФ, Й УПОМЙЧПУФШ ПДЕОЕФ Ч ТХВЙЭЕ.
Swedish+

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clad

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)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Clad"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "clad" (pronounced kla"d)
3-l a" dlad, glad, plaid.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Clad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-l"

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

-2 letters: ad, al, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-l"
 

+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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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