Noun: weld
Sample Sentences
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Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld. [2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair, page 173:]
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The aim of these tests is the examination of the weld without imparting any damage. These may include x-rays, hydrostatic tests, etc, and are also termed NDE or nondestructive examination and NDI or nondestructive inspection. […] To judge the soundness of the fillet welds another break test method is employed which is called as Fillet Weld Break Test. [2021 February 23, Ramakant Sharma, “Weld Testing Methods: Destructive & Non-Destructive”, in Cruxweld, archived from the original on 25 May 2025:]
Nouns inflected like weld
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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-. See: Middle English Nouns '
welde', Dutch Nouns '
wouw'.
Verbs referencing "weld"
English Nouns
gaudy, French Nouns
gaude, German Nouns
Wau, Galician Nouns
goldra.