braze

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French braser (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪz/

  Rhymes: -eɪz

  Homophone: braise

Verb

braze (third-person singular simple present braz, present participle ing, simple past and past participle brazed)

1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.

Derived terms

• braze welding

Translations

The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness

• French: braser (fr)
• Greek: χαλκοκολλώ (chalkokolló)
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• Polish: zgrzewać
• Russian: припаивать (ru) (pripaivatʹ), спаивать (ru) (spaivatʹ)

To burn or temper in fire

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Noun

braze (plural brazes)

1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
   • 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144:

     Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.

See also

• brazen

Anagrams

• Zaber, zebra