solder

English

A spool of solder.

Etymology

From Middle English solderen, from Old French solder (Modern French souder) from Latin solidāre, present active infinitive of solidō (“make solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sŏl'də(r), sōl'də(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsɒldə(ɹ)/, /ˈsəʊldə(ɹ)/

  Rhymes: -ɒldə(ɹ), -əʊldə(ɹ)

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• (Canada, General American) enPR: sŏd′ər, sōd'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsɑdɚ/, /ˈsəʊdə(ɹ)/

  Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ), -əʊdə(ɹ)

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Noun

solder (uncountable)

1. Any of various alloys, often of tin and lead, that are used to join small pieces of metal together.

Translations

any of various alloys that are used to join small pieces of metal together

• Armenian: զոդ (hy) (zod)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焊料 (zh) (hànliào)

• Czech: pájka (cs) f
• Danish: loddemetal n
• Dutch: soldeersel (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: juote, juotosmetalli, juotostina
• French: soudure (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Lötmetall n, Lot (de) n, Lötdraht m, Lötzinn (de) n
• Greek: συγκολλώ (el) (sygkolló)
• Gujarati: રેણ (reṇ)
• Icelandic: lóðmálmur m, lóðtin n, brasmálmur m, loðningarefni n
• Irish: sádar m

• Japanese: 半田 (はんだ, handa)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 땜납 (ko) (ddaemnap)
• Latvian: lode f
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: لحیم‎‎ (fa) (lahim)
• Polish: cyna (pl) f, spoiwo lutownicze n (formal), lut (pl) m
• Portuguese: solda (pt) f
• Russian: припо́й (ru) m (pripój)
• Serbo-Croatian: lem (sh) m
• Spanish: estaño para soldar m, estaño (es) m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: lehim (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: sodr (cy) m

Verb

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

1. To join with (or as if with) solder.

Antonyms

• desolder

Derived terms

• solderer
• soldering iron

Translations

to join with solder

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: զոդել (hy) (zodel)
• Bulgarian: запоя́вам (zapojávam), споя́вам (bg) (spojávam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焊接 (zh) (hànjiē)

• Czech: pájet, letovat
• Danish: lodde
• Dutch: solderen (nl)
• Esperanto: luti
• Finnish: juottaa (fi)
• French: souder (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: löten (de)
• Gujarati: રેણ કરવું (reṇ karvũ)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: forraszt (hu)
• Icelandic: lóða, brasa, sjóða saman, kveikja (is), kveikja saman

• Irish: sádráil
• Japanese: はんだづけする (handadzuke suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: plumbō (la)
• Latvian: lodēt
• Macedonian: леми (lémi)
• Persian: لحیم کردن‎‎ (lahim kardan)
• Polish: lutować (pl)
• Portuguese: soldar (pt)
• Quechua: chapiy
• Romanian: suda (ro)
• Russian: пая́ть (ru) impf (pajátʹ), припая́ть (ru) pf (pripajátʹ), спая́ть (ru) pf (spajátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: zalemiti (sh)
• Spanish: soldar (es)
• Swedish: löda (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: lehimlemek (tr)
• Vietnamese: hàn (vi)

See also

• braze
• flux
• weld

Anagrams

• Elrods, Loders, dorsel, resold

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French

Etymology

Cf. solde.

Verb

solder

1. to close (a deal)
2. (finance) 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)

Conjugation

  Conjugation of solder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		solder			avoir soldé
gerund		en soldant			en ayant soldé
present participle		soldant /sɔl.dɑ̃/
past participle		soldé /sɔl.de/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	solde /sɔld/	soldes /sɔld/	solde /sɔld/	soldons /sɔl.dɔ̃/	soldez /sɔl.de/	soldent /sɔld/
	imperfect	soldais /sɔl.dɛ/	soldais /sɔl.dɛ/	soldait /sɔl.dɛ/	soldions /sɔl.djɔ̃/	soldiez /sɔl.dje/	soldaient /sɔl.dɛ/
	past historic1	soldai /sɔl.de/	soldas /sɔl.da/	solda /sɔl.da/	soldâmes /sɔl.dam/	soldâtes /sɔl.dat/	soldèrent /sɔl.dɛʁ/
	future	solderai /sɔl.də.ʁe/	solderas /sɔl.də.ʁa/	soldera /sɔl.də.ʁa/	solderons /sɔl.də.ʁɔ̃/	solderez /sɔl.də.ʁe/	solderont /sɔl.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	solderais /sɔl.də.ʁɛ/	solderais /sɔl.də.ʁɛ/	solderait /sɔl.də.ʁɛ/	solderions /sɔl.də.ʁjɔ̃/	solderiez /sɔl.də.ʁje/	solderaient /sɔl.də.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	solde /sɔld/	soldes /sɔld/	solde /sɔld/	soldions /sɔl.djɔ̃/	soldiez /sɔl.dje/	soldent /sɔld/
	imperfect1	soldasse /sɔl.das/	soldasses /sɔl.das/	soldât /sɔl.da/	soldassions /sɔl.da.sjɔ̃/	soldassiez /sɔl.da.sje/	soldassent /sɔl.das/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	solde /sɔld/	—	soldons /sɔl.dɔ̃/	soldez /sɔl.de/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• solde
• solderie
• soldeur

Further reading

• “solder” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• drôles