weld
Plural: welds
Noun
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
- United States abolitionist (1803-1895)
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
- A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
- The joint made by welding.
Verb
Verb Forms: welded, welding, welds
- To join metal parts by heating and pressing them together.
- join together by heating
- "weld metal"
- unite closely or intimately
- "Her gratitude welded her to him"
- To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
- To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
- To wield.
Examples
- He managed to weld together a triple-word score by connecting two existing words.
- The arrows pierced through the welded ranks of the opposing army.
Origin / Etymology
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-.
Synonyms
dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola, Theodore Dwight Weld, dyer's weed, wild woad
Scrabble Score: 8
weld: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordweld: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
weld: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary