clad
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clad(d), cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen (“to put clothing on, clothe, dress”), from *clāþian (“to clothe”) (past participle ġeclāded, ġeclaþed, ġeclaþod), from clāþ, clǣþ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”); see further at etymology 1.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!
Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.
The radical conservatives of the Jain monks were called “Digambara—the sky-clad.” They went about completely naked, or in other words, “clothed in space.”
There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.
Love brought between my sheets a laughing lad / One night. Eighteen years old, he was half-clad / Like a young boy: what a sweet dream!
In the original photograph, the two leaders are followed by a single pair of uniform-clad men, but in Kafka's symmetrical arrangement, there are two pairs of attendants, each pair facing each other.
gloss: Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
often
examples: On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]
Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]
The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down / From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises.
[...] I can remember every volume among the three or four hundred books that made up the library of my father, the country doctor—three or four hundred besides those portentous leather-clad depositories of medical mystery filled with color plates depicting the awful intimacies of the innards;
Copper and copper-clad steel resist corrosion indefinitely in soil that is relatively free from ammonia.
The probe is constructed from plastic-clad silica fiber with an FPA Teflon jacket to prevent ambient light from being scattered into the system.
The second half of the century also saw the artistic peak of ceramic production at İzniq, with the finest products of the İzniq kilns made visible to the public in the tile-clad walls of the mosques of Rüstem Pasha (968/1561) and Șoqollu Meḥmed Pasha (979/1571) in Istanbul, both by Sinān.
gloss: Adorned, ornamented.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
Derived words: beclad
black-clad
demiclad
heathclad
ironclad
mailclad
moonclad
multiclad
overclad
pineclad
reclad
scantily clad
semiclad
skyclad
snowclad
thinclad
timber-clad
timberclad
tinclad
tuxedo-clad
unclad
underclad
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