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Definition: Solder |
SolderNoun1. An alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces. Verb1. Join or fuse with solder; "solder these two pipes together". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "solder" was first used: sometime around 1320. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Metallic compound used to seal joints between pipes. Until recently, most solder contained 50 percent lead. Use of solder containing more than 0.2 percent lead in pipes carrying drinking water is now prohibited. (references) |
Metallurgy | Junction of a welded piece. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The soldering process relates only to joints made below 800 degrees F (about 430 degrees C) with solders melting well below this temperature (formerly called the -- ). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. To unite the surfaces of metals b. An alloy of uniting metals. Brazing solders are alloys of zinc andcopper, while soft solders are alloys of tin and lea. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky. |
Connection | Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum. |
Junction | Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Solder |
| English words defined with "solder": Autogenous soldering ♦ braze ♦ contact ♦ dip solder ♦ Ferruminate, fusible metal ♦ Gold solder, Grozing iron ♦ hard solder ♦ Plumb joint ♦ Sawder, silver solder, Soder, soft solder, Soldered, solderer, soldering iron ♦ tangency, tin, tinning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "solder": enthone solder stripper ♦ LABORER, SOLDER MAKING ♦ SOLDER DEPOSIT OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, SOLDER MAKING. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "solder": Brass ♦ Chrysocolla ♦ Ferruminate ♦ solid, Solidate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Solder" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (close, price down, reduce the price, remainder, sell at sale price, sell off, sell out, settle). |
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| "Solder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.77% of the time. "Solder" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.77% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "solder": aluminum solder ♦ career solder ♦ dip solder ♦ every inch a solder ♦ Gold solder ♦ hard solder ♦ serve as a solder ♦ silver solder ♦ soft solder ♦ solder down ♦ solder nipple ♦ solder on ♦ solder together ♦ spelter solder ♦ tin solder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "solder": solder-ring, solder-tags. | |
Ending with "solder": ex-solder, hard-solder, soft-solder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
solder | 301 | solder wave tape | 13 |
silver solder | 89 | solder wick | 12 |
solder paste | 67 | solder aluminum | 12 |
kester solder | 58 | solder iron | 12 |
solder pot | 38 | solder lugs | 11 |
solder wire | 36 | solder gun | 11 |
lead free solder | 34 | solder fume extraction | 11 |
no solder ps2 mod chip | 29 | copper solder | 10 |
no solder mod chip | 26 | weller solder station | 10 |
solder flux | 25 | pace solder | 9 |
wave solder | 25 | masking solder tape | 9 |
weller solder | 24 | plumbing solder | 9 |
solder station | 23 | paste qualitek solder | 8 |
solder mask | 22 | plato pot solder | 8 |
aim solder | 18 | liquid solder | 8 |
solder ball | 18 | lead solder | 8 |
solder bar | 18 | solder paste stencil | 8 |
solder connector | 16 | noclean paste solder | 8 |
copper pipe solder | 16 | sleeve solder | 8 |
box chip mod no solder x | 16 | cable cat5e solder | 8 |
mask solder testing | 8 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "solder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | saldoj (weld), riparoj (do up, doctor, fix, mend, recondition, refit, rehabilitate, renew, renovate, repair), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, splice, stick, transmit, weld), mbush me material saldimi, material saldimi, lidhës (binding, conjunctive, connection, connective, connexion, syndetic, tier), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), bashkues (connective, coupler, coupling, pin, union), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, splice, unify, unite, weld), anoj (bank, careen, incline, lean, slope, tilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لحم (accrete, flesh, fuse, fuze, graft, interfuse, meat, weld), سبيكة لحام (soldering iron), إلتحم (adhere, coalesce, cohere, skin, unite, weld), رابطة (connection, connexion, ligament, nexus, relation, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | споявам (cement, knead, marry, weld), спойка (binder, binding, cement, clincher, seal, seam, vehicle, weld), мек припой, запоявам се, запоявам (seal, sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鑞 , 焊剂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spájet, pájka (melting-iron), letovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svejsning (solding, stretching, weld, welding), svejsesøm (solding, weld, welding), slaglodning (brazing, solding, weld, welding), lodning (soldering, solding, sounding, weld, welding), loddemetal, bloedlod (soft solder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | soldeer, solderen (braze welding, brazing, hard solder, soldering), soldeersel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | luti, lutaĵo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | lodda, klinka (handle, rivet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کفشیر, لحیم کردن , لحیم , وسیله التیام واتصال , جوش دادن (Shut, Vulcanize, Weld), جوش (Boil, Effervescence, Eruption, Gush, Pimple, Rash, Simmer, Spout, Weld), التیام دادن (Heal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pehmeäjuote (soft solder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soudure (soldering), souder, soudage (soldering, solding), braser (hard soldering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | löten (braze, soldering), verlöten (to solder (up)), Schweißen (bleed, weld, welding), Lot (perpendicular, plumb, plumb line, plumbline, plummet, plump, sounding line), Lötmittel, Lötmetall. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόλληση (adhesion, bond, bonding, soldered joint, solding, weld, welding), κόλλα μετάλλων, καλάï, συγκόλληση (agglutination, soldering, weld), συγκολλώ μέταλλα (weld), συγκολλητικό (adhesive), υλικό μαλακής συγκόλλησης (soft solder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתכת "לחמ", ל"לחים (weld), לרתך (weld), רתך (welder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | forrasztófém. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | patriot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saldatura (connection, connexion, link, seam, sewing, solder joint, weld, welding), saldare (balance, discharge, join, knit, link, link up with, pay, pay off, reckon up, settle, Square, square up, strike, strike a balance, weld, welding), metallo d'apporto per brasatura dolce (soft solder), lego per brasatura dolce, lega per saldatura. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 半" (pewter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は" (pewter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 땜납. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taah (adhere, anchylosis, cement, coalesce, coalescence, concrete, conjugate; conjugation, conjunction, filling, set, soldering, splice, sweat, weld, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldersay solda (weld), soldar (braze, disburse, fade, plumb, weld). (various references) sudurã (seam, soldering, weld, welding), suda (blend, fuse, perspire, weld), se suda (weld), se lipi (adhere, cling, cuddle, hook on, snuggle, stick), unire (accord, agreement, alliance, coalescence, coalition, combination, confederacy, confluence, conjugation, conjunction, connection, harmony, hook up, reunion, solidarity, union, unity), lipi (affix, agglutinate, apply, close, glue, gum, imprint, paste, paste up, patch a tyre, post, seal, splice, stick). (various references) спаять, спайка, воин (warrior), запаять, запаивать, припой, припаивать (sweat), паять. (various references) t th (cement, glue, join together). (various references) zalemiti (braze, solder down), vezivo (connective tissue), lem. (various references) soldar (braze, weld), soldadura (brazing, soldering, weld, welding). (various references) löda. (various references) เชื่อมโลหะ, เหล็กอัลลอย"์. (various references) lehimlenmek, lehimlemek (hard solder, sweat out), lehimle tutturmak, lehim (hard solder). (various references) galaяylamak. (various references) спайка (conglutination), відновлювати (continue, deoxidate, proceed, re establish, reconstruct, recover, renew, repair, restore, retrieve), об'"днуватися (alliance, ally, associate, club, coalesce, consolidate, incorporate), об'"днувати (amalgamate, band, combine, consolidate, embody, incorporate, rally, unify, unionize), зростатися (accrete, coalesce, grow together, inosculate), припій, паяти. (various references) vật h n gắn. (various references) sodr, asio (cement, join, weld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | glutino, solidare, solidarentur, solidatae, solido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "solder": solderabilities, solderability, soldered, solderer, solderers, soldering, solders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "solder": resolder, unsolder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "solder": resoldered, resoldering, resolders, unsoldered, unsoldering, unsolders. (additional references) | |
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"Solder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dolder, isoldes, Nolder, Noldor, osleri, salde, saloduro, Selde, sholder, slodde, sodder, soilder, solde, soldger, soldid, soldjer, solger, soljer, soltar, sonder, soulder, Zollner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "solder" (pronounced sÄ"der) |
| 3 | -Ä" d er | fodder, odder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dorsel, resold. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: doers, doles, doser, lodes, lords, lores, loser, older, orles, redos, resod, roles, rosed, soled, sorel. | |
-2 letters: dels, doer, does, dole, dols, dore, dors, dose, elds, eros, lode, lord, lore, lose, odes, olds, oles, ores, orle, redo, reds, rode, rods, roes, role, rose, sled, sloe, sold, sole, sord, sore. | |
-3 letters: del, doe, dol, dor. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bordels, dorsels, folders, holders, loaders, lodgers, molders, oldster, ordeals, polders, presold, refolds, reloads, remolds, resoled, rodless, rondels, scolder, smolder, solders, soldier, solider, weldors, yodlers. | |
+2 letters: bedrolls, boodlers, boulders, bowlders, closured, clowders, coddlers, coloreds, cordless, darioles, decolors, delators, delouser, delusory, deplores, doggrels, doodlers, doorless, dottrels, doublers, drollest, droplets, earldoms, flooders, fondlers, fordless, idoliser, ladrones, leopards, leotards, leporids, lodestar, lordless, lordoses, modelers, morseled, moulders, odorless, oldsters, oversold, pledgors, plodders, premolds, redpolls, refloods, remodels, resolder, resolved, roadless, roulades, roundels, scleroid, scolders, scrolled, shoulder, smolders, smoulder, solander, soldered, solderer, soldiers, soldiery, splendor, stolider, strolled, telfords, toddlers, unsolder, urodeles, wordless, yodelers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538178707184 |
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