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A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic coment. Hence, anything which unites or cements. Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or

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A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic coment. Hence, anything which unites or cements. Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc. -- Soft solder, a solder fusible at comparatively low temperatures; as, plumbers' solder, consisting of two parts lead and one part tin, is a soft solder. (more info) & F. souder to solder, L. solidare to fasten, to make solid. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOLDER)

• Consolidate
• Condense
• incorporate
• conglutinate
• cement
• solder
• bond
• weld
• thicken
• strengthen
• fuse

Related words: (words related to SOLDER)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• CONDENSER
  An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
• INCORPORATED
  United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
• CEMENTATION
  A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus
• CEMENT
  Etym: 1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet. 2. To unite firmly or closely. Shak. 3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
• INCORPORATE
  1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• THICKEN
  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
• SOLDERER
  One who solders.
• CEMENTATORY
  Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.
• SOLDERING
  from Solder, v. t. Soldering iron, Soldering tool, an instrument for soldering, consisting of a bit or bolt of copper having a pointed or wedge-shaped end, and furnished with a handle.
• CONGLUTINATE
  Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
• CEMENT STEEL
  Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
• CEMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.
• CEMENTITIOUS
  Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
• CONSOLIDATE
  Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. A gentleman while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot. (more info) make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid,
• CONDENSE
  1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. To combine or unite with or without separation of
• CEMENTER
  A person or thing that cements.
• SCARCEMENT
  An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• DISINCORPORATE
  1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• DOLCE; DOLCEMENTE
  Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• ENTICEMENT
  1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;