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# clad

adjective (clad); verb form (clad as an old past form of clothe; clad, clads, cladding — to cover a building)

«clad» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal or literary) Wearing a certain kind of clothes («clad in armour», «a black-clad figure»). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m1)
2. Covered with a layer of some material («stone-clad», «ivy-clad»). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m2)
3. (building, verb) To cover a building's walls with a layer of material; the layer is called «cladding». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and poems it describes how people are dressed — «a knight clad in steel». In building and the news it describes walls covered with panels; the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 led to rules about safe cladding. It tells the reader what someone or something is wrapped in. Often with «in»: «clad in».

### Examples

- The knight was clad in shining armour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x1)
- A figure clad in black stood at the gate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x2)
- The hills were clad in snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x3)
- The house was clad in red brick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x4)
- Ivy-clad walls surrounded the old garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x5)
- Workers are replacing unsafe cladding on the tower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x6)
- The children came clad in wellies and raincoats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x7)
- He was a plump young fellow, clad in summer garments and wearing a straw hat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x8)

### Note

Mostly used as an adjective after a noun or in compounds (snow-clad, steel-clad). It sounds old-fashioned or literary in the sense «dressed»; everyday English says «dressed in». «Cladding» is the noun for the covering on a building.

## In Jewish tradition

An old form of "clothed," meaning dressed in something.

**Interpretation.** God is pictured as clad in righteousness and salvation like a warrior. Tradition reads this as showing that God's saving acts come from justice and zeal.

### Examples

- And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. (Prophets 1SA.17.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clad/#x1)
- And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. (Prophets 1SA.17.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clad/#x2)
- And He put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon His head, and He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. (Prophets ISA.59.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clad/#x3)

### Note

Mostly used as an adjective after a noun or in compounds (snow-clad, steel-clad). It sounds old-fashioned or literary in the sense «dressed»; everyday English says «dressed in». «Cladding» is the noun for the covering on a building.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/clad.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «clad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/clad.html) on Mova free.