What's the difference between weald and weld?

Weald


Definition:

  • (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ship has joined vessels from Italy , Germany and Ireland in the international mission codenamed Operation Weald.
  • (2) During both of my visits to the camp I met residents who fear seeing their countryside devastated, who cannot understand why the government has given permission to drill in Lower Stumble, even though the site is located in the High Weald, designated an "area of outstanding natural eauty".
  • (3) According to Kent county council, the new building is an annexe of an existing girls’ grammar school, Weald of Kent in Tonbridge, and therefore legal because grammars are still allowed to expand.
  • (4) It was left to Sunand Prasad, president of the RIBA, to point out how such recent buildings as the Downland Gridshell and the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex by Ted Cullinan, and even the structure of Richard Rogers's Barajas airport terminal in Madrid, were shaped by elemental forms found in nature as much as the architecture admired by the prince.
  • (5) The long-awaited report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) concludes that "a reasonable central estimate for shale oil is 4.4bn barrels in the ground" in the Weald basin – an area which lies under Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
  • (6) The energy minister Michael Fallon denied he was disappointed that the BGS report said there was no shale gas in the Weald.
  • (7) It’s not a place we really want to go,” said Peter Woodman, headteacher of the Weald school in Billingshurst.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Year 7 pupils at morning break time at Weald of Kent grammar school.
  • (9) The oil industry has known since the second world war about the traditional oil reserves in the Weald area and 13 wells are currently in production.
  • (10) Kent county council claims the Sevenoaks grammar would be a satellite of Weald of Kent, with the same headteacher, curriculum and philosophy.
  • (11) But the BGS conclusion that "there is unlikely to be any shale-gas potential" in the Weald area is a major blow to ministers' wider hopes that shale could be found throughout the country.
  • (12) The original proposal, for a new co-educational annexe to the Weald of Kent girls’ grammar school in Tonbridge, a full 10 miles away, was rejected by Michael Gove in 2013 and a revised single-sex proposal submitted in November 2014.
  • (13) A British Geological Survey (BGS) report on Friday said that the Weald basin, a Jurassic geological structure stretching from Wiltshire to Kent, between the North and South Downs, contained a large shale oil deposit.
  • (14) Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US by starting a shale-gas revolution have been knocked back after a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluded there was no potential in fracking for gas in the Weald region of southern England.
  • (15) The Weald basin includes the South Downs national park and several areas of outstanding national beauty.
  • (16) There is a good view across 15 miles of the Sussex Weald to Ashdown Forest.
  • (17) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
  • (18) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
  • (19) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bower admits there are many girls from wealthy backgrounds at Weald of Kent.
  • (20) There are two main routes from the Weald to the proposed annexe: one along winding roads that go through the shopping centre of Sevenoaks, the other along the busy A21.

Weld


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wield.
  • (n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
  • (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
  • (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.
  • (n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (2) The possibility of contaminating the breathing air zone with hazardous substances in manual and semi-automated welding increases with the intensity of their formation in the arc zone.
  • (3) Laser repair has not been widely accepted both because the effect of laser irradiation on intact nerves is not well documented, and the anastomotic strength of the weld has been inferior to suture repair.
  • (4) The highest combined exposure (10-fold allowable value) was that of welders of steel coated with the zinc layer, using the metal active gas welding.
  • (5) The concentrations of 17 trace elements (e.g., copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, silicon and magnesium) were determined in whole blood samples of 81 persons working with different welding methods on stainless steel or aluminium and 68 nonwelders.
  • (6) These figures represent a participation rate of 37.1% in welders and 36.7% in non-welding subjects.
  • (7) Weak welds occurred with no thermal damage obtained at lower irradiances: stronger welds with thermal damage confined to the weld site occurred at higher irradiances.
  • (8) The results support the hypothesis that mild steel welding and to a lesser extent stainless steel welding with tungsten inert gas is associated with reduced semen quality at exposure in the range of the Danish process specific threshold limit values of welding.
  • (9) Low-level exposure to hexavalent chromium associated with TIG stainless steel and mild steel welding do not appear to be a major hazard for human spermatogenesis.
  • (10) Whereas the patterns of lung cancer mortality in these results suggest that the risk of lung cancer is higher for stainless steel than mild steel welders the different level of risk for these two categories of welding exposure cannot be quantified with precision.
  • (11) The occurrence of reduced birthweight, preterm delivery, infant mortality, and congenital malformation was not increased among children at risk from paternal welding exposure in comparison with children not at risk.
  • (12) The goal of future research should be to make the procedure less operator-dependent (dye enhanced or automated welding).
  • (13) When nacreous shell produced by the marine oyster Pinctada maxima, used as a biomaterial in oral surgery, is implanted in human bone, new bone formation occurs, resulting in a tight welding of the bone to the nacre [16].
  • (14) Tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress, and percentage elongation of the welded bars were measured and compared with the corresponding values for the titanium bars as delivered and with those of brazed type-3 gold alloy bars of similar dimensions.
  • (15) It was proved in experiment that endothelium formation is more adequate in a vascular microsuture formed by laser welding than in the formed by the traditional thread method.
  • (16) 23.2% of patients with pneumoconiosis caused by electric-welding aerosol showed regress of pneumoconiosis in afterdust period.
  • (17) Results indicated that excellent welds can be obtained with very little loss of strength and ductility in the area of the weld joint.
  • (18) Dizziness, headaches, and weakness occurred among three men after short-term hydrocarbon exposure during improper welding procedures in a closed container.
  • (19) In periods of reconstruction of chemical enterprises, hazardous compounds concentrations may exceed MAC, they are also characterized by contamination of the skin with toxic substances, welding aerosols discharge into the working zone, and microclimate distabilization.
  • (20) A limited investigation was carried out of the use of glass and ceramic fibre products used as protection against welding 'batter' and oxyacetylene welding flame.

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