clad

¹

[klad]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.

adjective

1. dressed.

   ill-clad vagrants.

2. covered.

   vine-clad cottages.

clad

²

[klad]

verb (used with object)

clad, cladding 

1. to bond a metal to (another metal), especially to provide with a protective coat.

clad-

³

1. variant of clado- before a vowel.

clad

¹

/ klæd /

verb

1. a past participle of clothe

clad

²

/ klæd /

verb

1. (tr) to bond a metal to (another metal), esp to form a protective coating

Word History and Origins

Origin of clad¹

before 950; Middle English cladd ( e ), Old English clāthod ( e ) clothed. See clothe, -ed ²

Origin of clad²

First recorded in 1935–40; special use of clad ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of clad¹

Old English clāthode clothed, from clāthian to _clothe

Origin of clad²

C14 (in the obsolete sense: to clothe): special use of _clad ¹

Example Sentences

Its popularity also jumped when xAI rolled out a range of avatars that users could speak with directly, including one named Ani, a scantily clad female stylized like an anime character.

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Ragoravich’s dacha is a “garish and almost grotesque” palace clad in marble that makes Maggie think of Versailles, but in a way that makes Versailles seem dumpy.

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A group, mainly clad in black, were led away from the ground at about 18:30 BST - more than 90 minutes after the match had finished.

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Another shared a drawing of a stick-figure family — the males clad in sombreros — with the caption, “Big or small, deport them all.”

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But the moment quickly soured when a woman, clad in Phillies gear and now widely dubbed “Phillies Karen,” approached, grabbed the father’s arm and demanded the ball.

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