Weld

Noun

 * 1) A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad.
 * 2) The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Verb

 * 1)  To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
 * 2) * 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
 * Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.
 * 1)  To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.

Noun

 * 1) The state of being welded.
 * 2) The joint made by welding.

Derived terms

 * butt weld
 * scarf weld

Verb

 * 1)   To wield.

Adverbs for Weld
electrically; sturdily; staunchly; firmly.

Thesaurus
accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, ankle, articulate, articulation, assemble, associate, band, bind, blaze, blister, bond, boundary, bracket, brand, braze, bridge, bridge over, burn, burn in, burn off, butt, carve, cast, cauterize, cement, cervix, chain, char, chase, chisel, clap together, clinch, closure, coal, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, copulate, couple, coupling, cover, crack, cupel, cut, dovetail, elbow, embrace, encompass, engrave, flame, found, fuse, gather, gliding joint, glue, grave, gum, hinge, hinged joint, hip, include, insculpture, interface, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knot, knuckle, lay together, league, link, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, merge, miter, mobilize, model, mold, mortise, neck, oxidate, oxidize, pair, parch, paste, piece together, pivot, pivot joint, put together, pyrolyze, rabbet, roll into one, scarf, scorch, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, seam, sear, shoulder, singe, solder, span, splice, stick together, stitch, suture, swinge, symphysis, take in, tape, tie, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, torrefy, unify, union, unite, vesicate, vulcanize, wrist, yoke

Etymology 1
From welde:, wolde:, from  (cf.  wouw:,  walde:, wolde:), from. More at.

Alternative forms

 * wold

Etymology 2
Alteration of well:, probably influenced by the past participle, welled:

Noun

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Verb

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 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:, zavariti
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 焊接 hàn jiē
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 溶接する
 * Polish: spawać
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Anagrams

 * lewd