WELDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welding mean? 

• WELDING (noun)
  The noun WELDING has 1 sense:

1. fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure

  Familiarity information: WELDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

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

butt-welding; butt welding (creating a butt joint by welding)

spot-welding; spot welding (creating an overlapping joint by welding at small points)

Derivation:

weld (join together by heating)

 Context examples 

By our lady! they have shown the French at Courtrai and elsewhere that they are as deft in wielding steel as in welding it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Specific types include: • Black lung disease among coal miners, from inhaling coal dust • Farmer's lung, from inhaling farm dust • Asbestosis, from inhaling asbestos fibers • Siderosis, from inhaling iron from mines or welding fumes • Silicosis, from inhaling silica dust

(Interstitial Lung Diseases, NIH)