solder

Etymology

From Middle English souder, soudere, soudur (noun), from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sŏlʹdə(r), sōlʹdə(r); IPA^(key): /ˈsɒl.də(ɹ)/, /ˈsəʊl.də(ɹ)/

  Rhymes: -ɒldə(ɹ), -əʊldə(ɹ)

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• (Canada, General American) enPR: sŏdʹər, sōʹdər, sôʹdər; IPA^(key): /ˈsɑd.ɚ/, /ˈsoʊ.dɚ/, (now rare) /ˈsɔ.dɚ/

  Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ), -əʊdə(ɹ), -ɔːdə(ɹ)

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Noun

solder (countable and uncountable, plural solders)

1. Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small.
   • 1991, John H. Lau, Solder Joint Reliability: Theory and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 225:

     ...the packaging of electronic components has moved from technology that used solder predominantly as an electrical connection (plated through-hole) to technology that uses solder as both a mechanical and electrical connection (surface mount technology)...

   • 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, quoting Buck, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 9:

     I've had so little feeling that I've burned myself with liquid solder and watched my skin burn and not felt anything.

2. Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals.
   • 1860, D R. M'Nab, Christian consolation; The way home; and Conjugal love‎:

     Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul — and solder of society.

Verb

solder (third-person singular simple present solders, present participle soldering, simple past and past participle soldered)

2. to join items together, or to coat them with solder
3. (figuratively) to join things as if with solder.
   • 2013, Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?: What drugs did to my family, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 137?:

     In the days that followed Nick's death I was in severe shock. I was shattered both physically and emotionally... I seemed to be living in slow motion, waiting for the fragmented parts of my body and mind to solder themselves together.

See also

• braze
• flux
• weld

Anagrams

• Elrods, Loders, dorsel, resold

Etymology

From Dutch zolder, from Middle Dutch solre, solder, from Old Dutch *solari, *soleri, from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl.dər/

Noun

solder (plural solders, diminutive soldertjie)

1. attic

Etymology

From solde +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl.de/

Verb

solder

1. to close (a deal)
2. to settle, to pay off (debt)
3. to sell at sales, to have a sale
4. (reflexive, ~ par) to end up (in), to result (in)

Further reading

• “solder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• drôles

Etymology

From Dutch soldeer, from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔldɛr]
• Hyphenation: sol‧dèr

Noun

solder-solder

1. solder: any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small

   Synonym: patri

Further reading

• “solder” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.