weld
verb/weld/
/weld/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they weld | /weld/ /weld/ |
| he / she / it welds | /weldz/ /weldz/ |
| past simple welded | /ˈweldɪd/ /ˈweldɪd/ |
| past participle welded | /ˈweldɪd/ /ˈweldɪd/ |
| -ing form welding | /ˈweldɪŋ/ /ˈweldɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to join pieces of metal together by heating their edges and pressing them together
- weld (something) to weld a broken axle
- weld A (on) (to B) The car has had a new wing welded on.
- weld A and B (together) All the parts of the sculpture have to be welded together.
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- [transitive] to make people or things join together into a strong and effective group
- weld somebody/something into something They had welded a bunch of untrained recruits into an efficient fighting force.
- weld something together The crisis helped to weld the party together.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘become united’): alteration (probably influenced by the past participle) of the verb well in the obsolete sense ‘melt or weld heated metal’.
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