welding

1. 1.

   fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure

   Broaderfastening

   Narrowerbutt weldingspot welding

Other forms of welding

plural

weldings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about welding

What does welding mean?

welding means "fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure".

How many syllables are in welding?

welding has 2 syllables: wel-ding. The stress falls on "wel". In IPA it is /ˈwɛldɪŋ/.

Is welding a common word?

welding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.