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solder
/ˈsɑdɚ/
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In American English, solder has a silent l.
Use the vowel in father, then d and a light r-colored ending. Stress the first syllable.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“He used solder to join the wires.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does solder mean?
noun
- Any of various easily melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small.
- (figuratively) Circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together, by analogy to solder that joins metals.
verb
- To join items together, or to coat them with solder.
More meanings (1)
verb
- (figuratively) To join things as if with solder.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɑdɚ/
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Wars ’twixt you twain would be As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rift.
They formerly burnt them for the sake of the solder, but now, by a new process, they are jointed without solder.
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The "bright plate," used for tin cans and other purposes, scarcely ever contains any lead except the small portion in solder.
As soon as the solder is cooled and set, the chuck with its attached work may then be put in the lathe, and the work proceeded with until it is completed.
His first cylinder was made by a whitesmith, of hammered iron soldered together, but having used quicksilver to keep the cylinder air-tight, it dropped through the inequalities into the interior, and "played the devil with the solder."