different between glue vs weld

English

Etymology

From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin gl?s (stem gl?t-), from Latin gl?ten. Related to clay.

Displaced native Old English l?m (“glue”) and ?el?man (“to glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?lju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues)

1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. (figuratively) Anything that binds two things or people together.
3. (obsolete) Birdlime.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or glueing, simple past and past participle glued)

1. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
2. (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

Synonyms

• (join with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste
• (adhere closely): adhere, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

Derived terms

• screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Further reading

• glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guel, UGLE, gule, luge

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu.

Noun

glue

2. Alternative form of glew (“glue”).

Etymology 2

From Old English gl?wian.

Verb

glue

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ld/
• Homophone: welled
• Rhymes: -?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant from of w?d, Proto-West Germanic *wai?d, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad.

Alternative forms

• wold

Noun

weld

1. A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Synonyms

• (Reseda luteola): dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of well (“boil, rise”), probably influenced by the past participle, welled.

Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
2. (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
   • 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess

     Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.

Derived terms

• all-welded
• long-welded

Translations

Noun

weld (plural welds)

1. The joint made by welding.
   • 2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair (page 173)

     Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

Derived terms

• butt weld
• scarf weld

See also

• braze
• solder

Etymology 3

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Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wield.
   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 168 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to a wicked giant] "he that alle the world weldeth gyue the ?orte lyf & ?ameful dethe" ("He who wields all the world gives thee short life and shameful death")

   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 172 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to conquering knights] "ye be worthy to welde all your honour and worship"

References

• weld in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• lewd

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• well (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?elt/

Adjective

weld (masculine welde or welle, feminine weld or well, comparative welder or weller, superlative et weldste)

1. (chiefly Ripuarian) wild

Usage notes

• The traditional inflected forms are those with -ll- in all dialects. Those with -ld- are now predominant, however, in many dialects under standard German influence.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ld/

Verb

weld

1. Soft mutation of gweld (“to see”).

Mutation