different between clad vs clag

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /klæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English cl?ðan (past tense cl?ðde, *clædde), probably from cl?þ, cl?þ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).

Verb

clad

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe

Etymology 2

From Middle English clad(d), cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen (“to put clothing on, clothe, dress”), from Old English cl?ðian, cl?þian (“to clothe”) (past participle ?ecl?ded, ?eclaðed, ?eclaðod), from cl?þ, cl?þ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”); see further at etymology 1.

Adjective

clad (not comparable)

1. (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

   Synonyms: attired, beclad, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed

   Antonyms: unclad; see also Thesaurus:naked
2. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
3. (figuratively) Adorned, ornamented.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently derived from clad (adjective); see etymology 2. Uses of clad as the simple past and past participle form of clad are indistinguishable from uses of the word as the simple past and past participle form of clothe.

Verb

clad (third-person singular simple present clads, present participle cladding, simple past and past participle clad or cladded)

1. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
2. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
3. (figuratively, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cladded (adjective)
• cladder
• cladding (noun)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DACL

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

clag (uncountable)

1. A glue or paste made from starch.
2. Low cloud, fog or smog.
   • 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman

     This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to […] [a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.]

   • 2004, David A. Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography

     We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover]

3. (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
4. (motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (c.f marbles).

   He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.

Derived terms

• claggy

Verb

clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)

1. (obsolete) To encumber
   • c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria

     As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite

   • 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations

     Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd

2. To stick, like boots in mud
   • 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909

     Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag [clag means get sticky] and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.

Anagrams

• GLAC

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

1. bell

Derived terms

• shamyr chluig, thie cluig (“belfry”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

1. bell

Derived terms

• beum-cluig

Mutation