welding

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Etymology

By surface analysis, weld +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛldɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

Verb

welding

1. present participle and gerund of weld

Noun

welding (plural weldings)

1. The action or process of welding:
   1. The joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.

      Hyponyms: arc welding, GMAW, MIG welding, MAG welding, GTAW, TIG welding, SMAW, stick welding, spot welding, shot welding, friction welding, stir welding, friction stir welding, forge welding, fire welding, cold welding, inertia welding

      • 1956 July, “Modernisation in the North Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 484:

        […] and at Dinsdale work will commence in 1957 on a depot to deal with rail welding and track pre-assembly. The plant envisaged will weld new flat-bottom rails into 180-ft. lengths for laying in selected lines.

      • 2021 February 23, Ramakant Sharma, “Weld Testing Methods: Destructive & Non-Destructive”, in Cruxweld‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2025:

        This type of physical testing by the non-destructive test is performed to check the welding quality in a closed container such as tanks and pressure vessels.

   2. Binding together inseparably; uniting closely or intimately.

Derived terms

• arc welding
• cold welding
• inertia welding
• MIG welding
• shot welding
• spot welding
• stick welding
• TIG welding
• welding booth
• welding bug
• welding iron
• welding machine

Related terms

• welder
• weldment

Translations

the action or process of welding: joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler

Arabic: لَحْم m (laḥm), لِحَام m (liḥām) Armenian: զոդում (hy) (zodum) Belarusian: зва́рка f (zvárka) Bulgarian: заваря́ване n (zavarjávane), зава́рка (bg) f (zavárka) Chinese: Mandarin: 焊接 (zh) (hànjiē) Czech: svařování n Estonian: keevitamine Finnish: hitsaaminen (fi), hitsaus (fi) French: soudage (fr) m German: Schweißen (de) f Greek: συγκόλληση (el) f (sygkóllisi) Hungarian: hegesztés (hu) Indonesian: las (id), pengelasan (id) Italian: saldatura (it) f Japanese: 溶接 (ja) (ようせつ, yōsetsu) Korean: 용접(鎔接) (ko) (yongjeop) Malay: pengimpalan Norwegian: sveising m Ottoman Turkish: قایناق (kaynak) Persian: جوشکاری (fa) (juškâri) Polish: spawanie (pl) n Portuguese: soldadura f, solda (pt) f, soldagem f Russian: сва́рка (ru) f (svárka) Spanish: soldadura dura f Swedish: svetsning (sv) c Ukrainian: зва́рювання n (zvárjuvannja), зва́рення n (zvárennja)

the action or process of binding together inseparably; uniting closely or intimately

Hungarian: összeforradás (hu), összeforrás, összeforrasztás

Anagrams

• lewding