SOLDER (solder)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: solder   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does solder mean? 

• SOLDER (noun)
  The noun SOLDER has 1 sense:

1. an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces

  Familiarity information: SOLDER used as a noun is very rare.

• SOLDER (verb)
  The verb SOLDER has 1 sense:

1. join or fuse with solder

  Familiarity information: SOLDER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("solder" is a kind of...):

alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solder"):

hard solder (solder that contains copper; melts at a relatively high temperature; used for brazing)

silver solder (a solder that contains silver)

soft solder (solder that melts at a relatively low temperature)

Derivation:

solder (join or fuse with solder)

• SOLDER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they solder    ... he / she / it solders   
Past simple: soldered   
Past participle: soldered   
-ing form: soldering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join or fuse with solder

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

solder these two pipes together

Hypernyms (to "solder" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "solder"):

dip solder (solder by immersion in a bath of molten solder)

soft-solder (repair with soft-solder)

braze (solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

solder (an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces)

solderer (a worker who joins or mends with solder)

soldering (fastening firmly together)

 Context examples 

He can, when once he find his way, come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with fire—solder you call it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He put the heart in the Woodman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the United States, lead exposure usually comes from lead-containing products, such as paint, caulking, and pipe solder, in older homes.

(Lead in kids’ blood linked with behavioral and emotional problems, NIH)

James Ryder, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin-lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

First he took out a soldering iron and some plumbing solder, and then a small oil-lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at fierce heat with a blue flame; then his operating knives, which he placed to hand; and last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about three feet long.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)