clad
clad Lexical Profile
clad Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Clothed or dressed in a specified type of garment or material.
"The dancers arrived on stage clad in vibrant silk costumes."
Covered, coated, or encased with an outer protective or decorative layer (especially of a building, surface, or metal).
"They cooked the stew in a heavy copper-clad pot that distributed heat evenly."
• verb
To cover the exterior of a building or structure with a protective, insulating, or decorative material.
"The architects decided to clad the modern museum in weathered steel panels."
To bond a protective layer of one metal onto the surface of another metal using heat and pressure.
"Manufacturers often clad carbon steel with stainless steel to prevent corrosion while keeping costs low."
Word Nuance & Usage
When describing clothing, 'clad' is historically the irregular past tense and past participle of 'clothe', and as an adjective it is used either predicatively with 'in' (e.g., 'clad in armor') or in hyphenated compounds (e.g., 'iron-clad', 'black-clad'). In architecture and metallurgy, however, 'clad' also functions as a distinct base verb meaning to coat or cover a structure or metal.
• Rhymes for clad
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'clædde' (past tense) and 'geclæded' (past participle) of 'clæthan' (to clothe), derived from the Germanic root for cloth.