weld

See also: Weld and Wëld

English

Reseda luteola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛld/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: welled
• Rhymes: -ɛld

Etymology 1

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad. Dutch wouw is derived from the same basic form with -l-.

Alternative forms

• woald, wold

Noun

weld

1. A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Synonyms

• (Reseda luteola): dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad

Translations

herb

• Breton: kerboullenn f
• Bulgarian: жълтеникава резеда f (žǎltenikava rezeda)
• Catalan: galda f, gavarró m
• Danish: farve-vau, farvereseda
• Dutch: wouw (nl) f
• Finnish: värireseda (fi)
• French: gaude (fr) f, réséda des teinturiers (fr) f
• Galician: goldra f, reseda f
• German: Färberwau m, Färberresede f, Gelbkraut n, Gilbkraut n
• Hungarian: festő rezeda
• Norman: hèrbe à teindre f (Jersey)
• Polish: rezeda żółtawa f
• Portuguese: gauda f, lírio-dos-tintureiros m
• Spanish: gualda (es) f
• Swedish: färgreseda
• Welsh: melengu f

dye

• Finnish: väriresedasta tehty väriaine
• Spanish: gualda (es) f

Etymology 2

A person welding

Alteration of well (“boil, rise”), probably influenced by the past participle, welled.

Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
2. (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.

   The arrows pierced through the welded ranks of the opposing army.

   • 1847, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess:

     Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.

   • 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:

     The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.

Derived terms

• all-welded
• arc weld
• butt-weld, buttweld
• cold weld
• fillet weld
• long-welded
• spot weld
• stick weld
• tack weld
• weld steel
• weld together

 

Translations

to join materials (especially metals) by applying heat

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: لَحَمَ (laḥama)
• Armenian: զոդել (hy) (zodel)
• Bulgarian: заварявам (zavarjavam)
• Catalan: soldar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焊接 (zh) (hànjiē)

• Czech: svářet impf
• Danish: svejse (da)
• Dutch: lassen (nl), wellen (nl)
• Esperanto: veldi, alforĝi
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hitsata (fi)
• French: braser (fr), souder (fr)
• Galician: soldar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schweißen (de)
• Greek: οξυγονοκολλώ (el) (oxygonokolló)
• Hebrew: רִיתֵּךְ (ritékh)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hegeszt (hu)
• Ido: weldar (io)
• Indonesian: mengelas (id)
• Irish: táthaigh
• Italian: saldare (it)
• Japanese: 溶接する (ja) (ようせつする, yōsetsu suru)
• Khmer: ផ្សារ (km) (psaa)
• Korean: 용접하다 (yongjeophada)
• Lao: ຈອດ (chǭt), ເຊື່ອມ (sư̄am)
• Latvian: metināt, sametināt
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Lü: ᦈᦸᧆᧈ (ṫsoad¹)
• Malay: mengimpal
• Maori: kāhono
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гагнах (mn) (gagnax)

  Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠩᠨᠠᠬᠤ (ɣangnaqu)

• Northern Thai: ᨧᩬᨯ
• Norwegian: sveise
• Pannonian Rusyn: завариц pf (zavaric), заварйовац impf (zavarjovac), зашвайзовац pf (zašvajzovac), швайзовац impf (švajzovac)
• Persian: جوش دادن (fa) (juš dâdan)
• Polish: spawać (pl) impf, zespawać pf
• Portuguese: soldar (pt)
• Romanian: suda (ro)
• Russian: сва́ривать (ru) impf (svárivatʹ), свари́ть (ru) pf (svarítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: variti (sh), zavariti (sh)
• Spanish: soldar (es), weldear (United States), hueldear (United States)
• Swedish: svetsa (sv)
• Tai Dam: ꪊꪮꪒ, ꪭꪱꪙ
• Tai Nüa: ᥓᥪᥐᥳ (tsu̇ek)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: บัดกรี (th) (bàtgree), ประสานรอย (bpràsăan roi), เชื่อม (th) (chʉ̂ʉam)
• Tibetan: ཚ་ལ་བརྒྱབ (tsha la brgyab)
• Turkish: kaynatmak (tr), kaynak yapmak
• Ukrainian: зва́рювати impf (zvárjuvaty), звари́ти pf (zvarýty)
• Vietnamese: hàn (vi)

to bind, unite

• Bulgarian: свързвам здраво (svǎrzvam zdravo)
• Dutch: verbinden (nl), samenvoegen (nl)
• Finnish: hitsata (fi)
• Galician: soldar
• German: zusammenfügen (de), vereinen (de), verbinden (de)
• Hungarian: forraszt (hu), összeforraszt (hu), egybeforraszt (hu)
• Polish: spajać (pl) impf, zespajać impf, spoić pf, zespoić pf
• Portuguese: soldar (pt)
• Russian: объединя́ть (ru) impf (obʺjedinjátʹ), объедини́ть (ru) pf (obʺjedinítʹ), спла́чивать (ru) impf (spláčivatʹ), сплоти́ть (ru) pf (splotítʹ)
• Spanish: unir (es), soldar (es)

Noun

weld (plural welds)

1. The joint made by welding.
   • 2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair, page 173:

     Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

Derived terms

• butt weld
• scarf weld

Translations

A joint made by welding

• Bulgarian: заварка (bg) f (zavarka)
• Maori: kāhono

See also

• braze
• solder

Etymology 3

From Old English weald (sense 2).

Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wield.
   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 168 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to a wicked giant] "he that alle the world weldeth gyue the ſorte lyf & ſameful dethe" ("He who wields all the world gives thee short life and shameful death")

   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 172 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to conquering knights] "ye be worthy to welde all your honour and worship"

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     Turne thee to those that weld the awfull crowne

References

• “weld”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• WLED, lewd

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• well (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋelt/

Adjective

weld (masculine welle or welde, feminine and plural well or weld or welde, comparative weller or welder, superlative et weldste)

1. (chiefly Ripuarian) wild

Usage notes

• The traditional inflections are those with -ll- in all dialects. However, those with -ld- are now predominant in some dialects under standard German influence.

Middle English

Noun

weld

1. (Southern) Alternative form of wold

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛld/

Verb

weld

1. Soft mutation of gweld (“to see”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of gweld

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gweld	weld	ngweld	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.