Dictionary Definition
Verb
1 provide with clothes or put clothes on;
"Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: undress]
1 wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes
used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud
of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad
nurses" [syn: clothed]
[ant: unclothed]
2 having an outer covering especially of thin
metal; "steel-clad"; "armor-clad" [also: cladding]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -æd
Etymology
Alternative perfect and past participle of clothe: geclæþd, past participle of clæþan, from clað.Verb
- To clothe.
- The horse was clad with its best blanket.
- To cover with insulation.
- past of clad
- past of clothe
Translations
to clothe
- Finnish: pukea
- French: recouvrir
- Russian: одевать
to cover with insulation
- Finnish: päällystää
Extensive Definition
Cladding is the covering of one material with
another. It has different meanings depending on the context.
Metal
In metallurgy, cladding is the bonding together of dissimilar metals. It is distinct from welding or gluing as a method to fasten the metals together. Cladding is often achieved by extruding two metals through a die or pressing sheets together under high pressure.The United
States Mint uses cladding to manufacture coins from different metals. This
allows a cheaper metal to be used as a filler.
Optical fiber
Regarding optical fiber in telecommunication, cladding is one or more layers of material of lower refractive index, in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index. (Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188)Building construction
In building construction, cladding may refer to the application of one material over another to provide a weather-proof layer intended to control the infiltration of weather elements. Cladding does not necessarily have to provide a water-proof condition but is instead a control element. This control element may only serve to safely direct water or wind in order to control run-off and prevent infiltration into the building structure. Cladding applied to windows is often referred to as window capping and is a very specialized field.Nuclear reactor fuel
In nuclear reactors, cladding is the outer layer of the fuel rods, standing between the coolant and the nuclear fuel. It is made of a corrosion-resistant material with low absorption cross section for thermal neutrons, usually Zircaloy or steel in modern constructions, or magnesium oxide with small amount of aluminium and other metals for the now-obsolete Magnox reactors. Cladding prevents radioactive fission fragments from escaping the fuel into the coolant and thereby from contaminating it.Naval
clad in German: Verkleidung
clad in Spanish: Recubrimiento
clad in Polish: Platerowanie
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
apparel, appareled, array, arrayed, attire, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dress, dressed, enclothe, endued, face, garb, garbed, garment, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hooded, invested, liveried, mantled, pantalooned, raiment, raimented, rigged out,
robed, shod, shoed, side, skin, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented