What's the difference between clad and glad?

Clad


Definition:

  • (v.t) To clothe.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Clothe.
  • () of Clothe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (2) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (3) Purified boveine growth hormone labeled enzymatically with iodine-125 was covalently coupled to cyanogen bromide activated Sepharose 4B gel and to diazotized zirconia-clad glass beads.
  • (4) He then shows his strength and holds off Blind and a couple of orange-clad players.
  • (5) We have rather iron-clad information from sources in both the Arab world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States and in fact they helped create the resolution in the first place,” Keyes said.
  • (6) While BoKlok houses have a limited choice of colour and cladding types, Persimmon's Space4 arm has come up with more than 1,000 different CAD-designed timber-frame house types.
  • (7) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
  • (8) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
  • (9) Each subject, lightly clad, was required to remain for 30 min in a room at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees C followed by a 30 min period in a cold room at 4 degrees C. A month later, control tests were carried out at a constant 25 degrees C temperature for 1 h in the same subjects.
  • (10) A series of perfusion experiments presents evidence that microtubules localized in the clad are directly associated with the membrane excitability.
  • (11) Clad in a bright red Newroz dress, Fatma's other daughter, Nilgün, listened intently to Öcalan's message.
  • (12) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
  • (13) Many "photo-bombed" their opponents: rainbow-clad individuals leaped into the foreground as marriage equality opponents lined up snapshots.
  • (14) Plain lead missiles and those partially clad with copper often leave traces of lead along their paths, while those that are completely copper clad do not.
  • (15) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (16) It’s not about promoting it to lycra-clad riders.
  • (17) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
  • (18) Earlier this week, more than 14,000 people – including a baby boy born in a mud-clad tent to a Syrian refugee on Sunday – were caught in limbo as a result of the border closures.
  • (19) In a research study I conducted exclusively into the everyday citizenship experiences of burqa-clad Muslim women, the results revealed a widespread sense of personal insecurity and societal disempowerment.
  • (20) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.

Glad


Definition:

  • (superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
  • (superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
  • (v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
  • (v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
  • (3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
  • (4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
  • (5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
  • (6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
  • (7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
  • (8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
  • (9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
  • (10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
  • (11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
  • (12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
  • (13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
  • (14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
  • (15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
  • (16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
  • (17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
  • (18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
  • (19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
  • (20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.