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WELD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("weld" is a kind of...):

joint (junction by which parts or objects are joined together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weld"):

spot-weld; spot weld (each of the welds made by welding at a separate point)

Derivation:

weld (join together by heating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

Synonyms:

Theodore Dwight Weld; Weld

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)

Sense 3

Meaning:

European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America

Synonyms:

dyer's mignonette; dyer's rocket; Reseda luteola; weld

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("weld" is a kind of...):

reseda (any plant of the genus Reseda)

Holonyms ("weld" is a member of...):

genus Reseda (Old World genus of herbs having racemose flowers: mignonette; dyer's rocket)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unite closely or intimately

Example:

Her gratitude welded her to him

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "weld" is one way to...):

merge; unify; unite (join or combine)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Join together by heating

Example:

weld metal

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "weld" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

"Weld" entails doing...:

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weld"):

spot-weld; spotweld (make circular welds)

butt-weld; buttweld (join by a butt weld)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

weld (a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together)

welder (joins pieces of metal by welding them together)

welding (fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure)

weldment (an assembly of parts welded together)

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