What's the difference between weld and wend?

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.

Wend


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Wene.
  • (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
  • (v. i.) To turn round.
  • (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
  • (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
  • (2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
  • (3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
  • (4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
  • (5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
  • (6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
  • (7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
  • (8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
  • (9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
  • (10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
  • (11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
  • (12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
  • (13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.