(n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.
(n.) One who welds, or wields.
(n.) A manager; an actual occupant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afterwards, the unemployed welder said: “I just didn’t like his attitude.
(2) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(3) 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.
(4) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(5) General health was good in both vocational groups and isometric strength for the welders was intermediate between that of office clerks (who had lower strength) and that of fishermen (who had higher strength, as disclosed in a previous investigation).
(6) Despite the short duration of follow-up, some occupation-cancer associations, consistently documented in others surveillance studies, have been detected in our study: lung cancer among motor vehicle drivers (SMR 143, 27 obs), metal molders (SMR 178, 8 obs), welders (SMR 241, 7 obs) and wood workers (SMR 218, 12 obs), leukemias and electrical workers (SMR 367, 6 obs).
(7) These figures represent a participation rate of 37.1% in welders and 36.7% in non-welding subjects.
(8) Arc welders' pneumoconiosis appears to be more than a benign siderosis resulting from particulate iron deposition.
(9) A cross-sectional survey was conducted to understand the extent of occupational injuries and the perception of hazards among the road-side welders in the city of Karachi.
(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 study consisted of 226 male construction welders who had never worked in shipyards.
(12) An arc welder of 32 years of age is presented with a random finding of miliar reticulonodular shadows in the plain film of the thorax.
(13) In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer , a 52-year-old welder and the victim of expropriation, drove a bulletproof tank into town and demolished a dozen municipal buildings before shooting himself.
(14) If you were a welder in a shipyard you were somebody, but if you were working in a shop somewhere, well …" He recalls talking to a priest from Los Angeles, who was devoted to working with the gangs of the Californian city.
(15) The observation period and the criteria for inclusion of welders varied from country to country.
(16) A study was made of the exposure of welders and cutters in Dutch industries to air pollution consisting of total particulate, chromium, nickel, copper, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.
(17) Histological examination on lung tissue obtained from 10 symptomatic welders was performed by two certified pathologists without the knowledge of the patients' clinical condition.
(18) Injury to the ear in welders is a recognized but poorly documented entity.
(19) The study of 64 welders employed at automated work stands in the railway car factory conducted in 1989 and 1990 has shown that the psychomotor efficiency level in the examined workers (except for a few cases) was normal.
(20) The urinary aluminum concentrations rose rapidly in volunteers exposed only for 1 d and returned to the preexposure levels with an estimated half-time of about 8 h. The welders were monitored for one workweek.
Wield
Definition:
(v. t.) To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
(v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
(v. t.) To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.
Example Sentences:
(1) He argued that it was vital that we “should give the people of this country a chance to decide”, and that “[the nation was witnessing] a continuation of that old and disastrous system where a few men in charge of the state, wielding the whole force of the state, make secret engagements and secret arrangements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people…” This, and a lot more little-known information on the road to the first world war is given in Douglas Newton’s book The Darkest Days .
(2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(3) For all their supposed power, companies feel vulnerable to the power wielded both by their consumers and by the government.
(4) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(5) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
(6) Baton-wielding police detained dozens of people, with Malaysian media reports saying as many as 100 were arrested.
(7) In an era when consumers get their news from a greater variety of sources, the Sun may not wield the power and influence it once did.
(8) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(9) As managing editor of the paper over the past eight years, working alongside the current executive editor, Bill Keller, she has had to wield the knife and cut 100 newsroom jobs, but says: "It's not been the same kind of deep muscle cuts that other news- rooms have made."
(10) From the typed letters on Clarence House notepaper underlined in his own hand, to the clever blend of courteousness and implied threat used in his own correspondence and by his righthand man, Sir Michael Peat, the case has revealed in detail how the prince wields his power.
(11) France has overtaken the US and Britain as the world’s top soft power, according to an annual survey examining how much non-military global influence an individual country wields.
(12) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(13) A group of “knife-wielding suspects” attacked a colliery in Asku prefecture, about 650km south-west of Urumqi, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US-funded news group.
(14) But not long after the plea for calm, police in nearby St Louis said they had shot dead a man wielding a knife outside a convenience store.
(15) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
(16) It’s a surprisingly simple answer: as David Klinger, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St Louis and a former officer with the Los Angeles police department, says, “Officers aren’t required to risk their lives unnecessarily.” Officers are trained to use deadly force on suspects wielding weapons, Klinger said.
(17) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(18) But those really free are the minority who wield economic and financial power.
(19) But he always agonised over his dissent - during a particularly fraught debate about selling the government-owned telecommunications company Telstra in 2009 – where he wielded a decisive vote, he took himself to hospital with chest pains.
(20) Linyi City authorities have imprisoned his 33-year-old nephew Chen Kegui for defending himself against stick-wielding officials and security agents on the night of Chen's escape .