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Definitions: Weld |
WeldNoun1. 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. Verb1. Join together by heating, as of metals. 2. Unite closely or intimately; "Her gratitude welded her to him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weld" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Weld or ~~~Wold. Wold. The dyer's-weed (reseda luteola), which yields a beautiful yellow dye. (Anglo-Saxon, geld or gold, our yellow, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Junction of a welded piece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Weld, Maine."
Synonyms: WeldSynonyms: dyer's mignonette (n), dyer's rocket (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky. |
Junction | Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Weld |
| English words defined with "weld": Butt weld, Buttweld ♦ Cold shut ♦ Jam weld ♦ Lap weld, Lap-welded, Luteic ♦ Theodore Dwight Weld ♦ Welded, Welt joint, Welte, Wild woad, Woald. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weld": root of the weld ♦ weld bead, weld dressed flush, WELD INSPECTOR I, WELD INSPECTOR II. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "weld": Goud ♦ Luteous. (references) |
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Screenplays | How are you going to weld it? (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) Well, if I can weld a good spark plug it'll replace the electrode. (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Weld (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Weld boat club, Cambridge, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Garden on the "Weld" estate, Brookline, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fountain in garden, Larz Anderson estate, "Weld", Brookline, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. John Brown used to weld rails for merry-go-round. The carrousel plant in which he worked is now engaged in producing parts for a war production program under several subcontractors. He finds the transition to the welding.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group farm plan writing meeting. Weld County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chaff from thresher. Weld County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. and Mrs. Milton Robinson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers, in their farmhouse near Greenley. Weld County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Threshing soybeans. Weld County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Fred Schmeeckle, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, with her son. Weld County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Learning to weld.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Weld" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 40.40% of the time. "Weld" is used about 99 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 40.4% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.25% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.12% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "weld" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Weld | Last name | 300 | 23,297 |
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1. Weld, ME |
Expressions using "weld": butt weld ♦ Jam weld ♦ Lap weld ♦ oxygen weld ♦ root of the weld ♦ sagged weld ♦ scarf weld ♦ Theodore Dwight Weld ♦ weld bead ♦ Weld County ♦ weld dressed flush ♦ weld pool ♦ weld steel ♦ weld together ♦ weld where the parent metal has softened allowing the weld and edges of metal to sag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "weld": Weld-blundell, weld-seams. | |
Ending with "weld": solvent-weld. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weld wheels | 505 | mig weld | 43 |
weld | 364 | cylinder weld | 41 |
spot testing weld | 174 | weld nut | 41 |
machine spot weld | 173 | weld symbol | 40 |
checker weld | 169 | tig weld | 39 |
head resistance weld | 169 | learn weld | 39 |
head spot weld | 164 | weld stud | 38 |
weld monitor | 161 | weld rim | 35 |
quality testing weld | 154 | arc weld | 28 |
spot weld | 153 | assessor county weld | 27 |
weld racing | 152 | weld racing rim | 25 |
weld county | 125 | j b weld | 24 |
checkers weld | 116 | view weld | 21 |
jb weld | 111 | county humane society weld | 20 |
tuesday weld | 106 | weld plastic | 19 |
weld county colorado | 105 | county sheriff weld | 18 |
weld racing wheels | 93 | weld wheel | 18 |
checkers spot weld | 75 | screen view weld | 18 |
weld on hinge | 59 | county district school weld | 17 |
weld aluminum | 56 | evo weld | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "weld"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | saldoj (solder), saldim (soldering, welding), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لحم الأجزاء, لحم (accrete, flesh, fuse, fuze, graft, interfuse, meat, solder), لحام (solderer, soldering, welding), وصلة ملحومة, البليحاء نبتة, إلتحم (adhere, coalesce, cohere, skin, solder, unite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss), споявам (cement, knead, marry, solder), спойка (binder, binding, cement, clincher, seal, seam, solder, vehicle), сплотявам (pull together, rally, solidify, unite, whip), оксиженирам, заварявам (sweat), заварка (seal, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 焊接 (sintered, Soldered, soldering, Welded, Welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svar (join, joint, wrangle), svářet kovy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svejsning (solder, solding, stretching, welding), svejsesoem, svejsesøm (solder, solding, welding), slaglodning (brazing, solder, solding, welding), lodning (solder, soldering, solding, sounding, welding), farvevau (dyer's weed, dyer's-weed), farvereseda (dyer's weed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lassen (fusing, fusion, sealing, solder, soldering, solding, splice, splicing, welding), wouw (kite), wellen (spring, well up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | veldi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sjóða saman. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیوستن (Adhere, Adjoin, Affiliate, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Attach, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Connect, Couple, Join, Meet, Sort), جوشکاری کردن , جوش دادن (Shut, Solder, Vulcanize), جوش (Boil, Effervescence, Eruption, Gush, Pimple, Rash, Simmer, Solder, Spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | värireseda (dyer's weed), hitsi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soudure (welding), soudage (welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schweißen (bleed, solder, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγκόλληση (agglutination, soldering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | להלחים (solder), לרתך (solder), רתוך (soldering, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hegeszt (to weld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengelas (braze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saldatura (connection, connexion, link, seam, sewing, solder joint, welding), saldare (balance, discharge, join, knit, link, link up with, pay, pay off, reckon up, settle, solder, Square, square up, strike, strike a balance, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鎔接 (welding), 熔接 (welding), 溶接 (welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ようせつ (premature death, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 용접 (Welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taah (adhere, anchylosis, cement, coalesce, coalescence, concrete, conjugate; conjugation, conjunction, filling, set, solder, soldering, splice, sweat, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eldway solda (solder). (various references) sudurã (seam, solder, soldering, welding), sudare (welding), suda (blend, fuse, perspire, solder), se uni (ally, associate, band together, coalesce, combine, commingle, conjoin, conjugate, connect, inosculate, join, join hands, unite), se suda (solder), drobiţã. (various references) сварить (cook). (various references) zavariti, variti (brew, digest), švajsovati. (various references) soldadura (brazing, solder, soldering, welding), soldar (braze, solder). (various references) svetsa. (various references) leğimlemek, kaynamak (abound, boil, boil away, bubble up, come to the boil, conglutinate, join, seethe, spill over with, swarm, teem, well), kaynak yeri, kaynak yapmak (sweat out), kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb), birleşmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, knit up, link, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite). (various references) seplemek (connect, join). (various references) згуртовувати (compact), зварювати (burn together), зварювання (welding). (various references) asio (cement, join, solder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Reseda luteola. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Fulasse entolaV mh epilaqh mhde paridhV rhsin emou stomatoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Posside sapientiam posside prudentiam ne obliviscaris neque declines a verbis oris mei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Weld wisdam, weld prudence; ne foryete thou, ne bowe thou doun fro the woordis of my mouth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Batoni ang kaalam, batoni ang pagsabut; Ayaw hikalimti, ni pag-ayran mo ang mga pulong nga gikan sa akong baba; |
| Croatian | Steci mudrost, steci razbor, ne smeæi ih s uma i ne odstupi od rijeèi mojih usta. |
| Danish | køb Visdom, køb Forstand, du glemme det ikke, vend dig ej bort fra min Munds Ord; |
| Dutch | Verkrijg wijsheid, verkrijg verstand; vergeet niet, en wijk niet van de redenen mijns monds. |
| Finnish | Hanki viisautta, hanki ymmärrystä, älä sitä unhota, älä väisty pois minun suuni sanoista. |
| French | Acquiers la sagesse, acquiers l`intelligence; N`oublie pas les paroles de ma bouche, et ne t`en détourne pas. |
| German | Nimm an Weisheit, nimm an Verstand; vergiß nicht und weiche nicht von der Rede meines Mundes. |
| Haitian Creole | Chache gen konesans ak bon konprann. Pa janm bliye sa m'ap di ou la a. Pa vire do ba yo. |
| Hungarian | Szerezz bölcseséget, szerezz eszességet; ne felejtkezzél el, se el ne hajolj az én számnak beszéditõl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jadilah bijaksana dan cerdas! Ingatlah selalu akan nasihat-nasihatku dan janganlah membuangnya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tuntutlah akan hikmat, tuntutlah akan akal budi; jangan engkau lupa dan jangan undur dari pada perkataan lidahku. |
| Italian | Acquista la sapienza, acquista l'intelligenza; non dimenticare le parole della mia bocca e non allontanartene mai. |
| Maori | Whaia mou te whakaaro nui, whaia mou te matauranga; kaua e wareware ki tera, kaua hoki e neke atu i nga kupu a toku mangai. |
| Norwegian | Kjøp visdom, kjøp forstand, glem ikke og vik ikke fra min munns ord! |
| Portuguese | Adquire a sabedoria, adquire o entendimento; não te esqueças nem te desvies das palavras da minha boca. |
| Rumanian | Dobkndewte knyelepciune, dobkndewte pricepere; nu uita cuvintele gurii mele, wi nu te abate dela ele. |
| Russian | рТЙПВТЕФБК НХДТПУФШ, РТЙПВТЕФБК ТБЪХН: ОЕ ЪБВЩЧБК ЬФПЗП Й ОЕ ХЛМПОСКУС ПФ УМПЧ ХУФ НПЙИ. |
| Spanish | ¡Adquiere sabiduría! ¡Adquiere entendimiento! No te olvides ni te apartes de los dichos de mi boca. |
| Swedish | Sök förvärva vishet, sök förvärva förstånd, förgät icke min muns tal och vik icke därifrån. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weld": weldable, welded, welder, welders, welding, weldless, weldment, weldments, weldor, weldors, welds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "weld": reweld. (additional references) | |
Words containing "weld": rewelded, rewelding, rewelds, unwelded. (additional references) | |
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"Weld" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eld, Ewoldt, ield, leld, neld, walad, walid, wead, wedd, weild, wel, wela, welde, wele, wella, welo, welp, welq, wenl, werd, werl, werld, weyl, wheld, wildi, wildr, wilod, Wle, wuld, wyld, yeld, zeld. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weld" (pronounced we"ld) |
| 4 | w e" l d | dwelled, quelled, swelled. |
| 3 | -e" l d | celled, compelled, dispelled, excelled, expelled, felled, fjeld, handheld, held, impelled, meld, misspelled, propelled, rebelled, repelled, shelled, smelled, spelled, upheld, withheld, yelled. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lewd. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-w" | |
-1 letter: del, dew, eld, led, wed. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, el, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-w" | |
+1 letter: dowel, dwell, dwelt, lawed, lowed, waled, weald, wedel, welds, wield, wiled, wyled. | |
+2 letters: bawled, blawed, blowed, bowled, clawed, clewed, cowled, dawdle, declaw, dewily, dewlap, dewool, dowels, dwells, flawed, flowed, fowled, glowed, howled, jowled, lewder, lewdly, mewled, mildew, plowed, reweld, slewed, slowed, waddle, wadmel, wailed, walked, walled, wandle, wauled, wawled, wealds, wedeln, wedels, welded, welder, weldor, welled, welted, whaled, whiled, widdle, widely, wields, wieldy, wilder, willed, wilted, windle, wolfed, wooled, yawled, yowled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 64 |
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