solder

English

Soldered joint between two substantial metal strips

Soldering small components of an electronic circuit board

A spool of solder wire. The so-called wire actually is a hollow tube filled with a core of flux that melts when the soldering iron is applied.

Etymology

From Middle English souder, soudere, soudur (noun), from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sŏlʹdə(r), sōlʹdə(r); IPA^(key): /ˈsɒl.də(ɹ)/, /ˈsəʊl.də(ɹ)/

  Rhymes: -ɒldə(ɹ), -əʊldə(ɹ)

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• (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: sŏdʹər IPA^(key): /ˈsɒ.də/
• (Canada, General American) enPR: sŏdʹər, sōʹdər, sôʹdər; IPA^(key): /ˈsɑd.ɚ/, /ˈsoʊ.dɚ/, (now rare) /ˈsɔ.dɚ/

  Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ), -əʊdə(ɹ), -ɔːdə(ɹ)

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Noun

solder (countable and uncountable, plural solders)

1. Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small.
   • 1991, John H. Lau, Solder Joint Reliability: Theory and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 225:

     ...the packaging of electronic components has moved from technology that used solder predominantly as an electrical connection (plated through-hole) to technology that uses solder as both a mechanical and electrical connection (surface mount technology)...

   • 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, quoting Buck, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 9:

     I've had so little feeling that I've burned myself with liquid solder and watched my skin burn and not felt anything.

2. Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals.
   • 1860, D R. M'Nab, Christian consolation; The way home; and Conjugal love‎^[2]:

     Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul — and solder of society.

Derived terms

• gold solder
• solder bump
• solder gobbler
• solder mask
• solder resist
• solder stop
• solder sucker

Translations

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

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: զոդ (hy) (zod)
• Azerbaijani: lehim
• Basque: eztainu (eu)
• Bulgarian: припой (bg) m (pripoj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焊料 (zh) (hànliào)

• Czech: pájka (cs) f
• Danish: loddemetal n
• Dutch: soldeersel (nl) n
• Esperanto: luto (eo), lutalojo
• Finnish: juote, juotemetalli, juotostina (fi)
• French: soudure (fr) f
• Galician: solda f
• Georgian: სარჩილი (sarčili)
• German: Lötmetall n, Lot (de) n, Lötdraht m, Lötzinn (de) n
• Greek: συγκολλώ (el) (sygkolló)
• Gujarati: રેણ (reṇ)
• Hebrew: לחם (he) m (lákham)
• Hungarian: forrasz (hu), forraszanyag, forrasztóanyag
• Icelandic: lóðmálmur m, lóðtin n, brasmálmur m, loðningarefni n
• Irish: sádar m
• Japanese: 半田 (ja) (はんだ, handa)
• Kazakh: дәнекер (däneker)
• Khmer: សំណផ្សារ (sɑmnphsaa)
• Korean: 땜납 (ko) (ttaemnap)
• Latvian: lode f
• Macedonian: лем m (lem)
• Maori: piuta, tūhoto
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: loddemetall n, loddetråd

  Nynorsk: loddemetall n, loddetråd m

• 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: โลหะบัดกรี
• Tibetan: ཚ་ལ (tsha la)
• Turkish: lehim (tr)
• Vietnamese: chất hàn
• Welsh: sodor m, sodr (cy) m

Verb

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

2. To join items together, or to coat them with solder.
3. (figuratively) To join things as if with solder.
   • 2013, Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?: What drugs did to my family, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 137?:

     In the days that followed Nick's death I was in severe shock. I was shattered both physically and emotionally... I seemed to be living in slow motion, waiting for the fragmented parts of my body and mind to solder themselves together.

Antonyms

• desolder

Derived terms

• solderer
• soldering bolt
• soldering iron

Translations

to join with solder

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: զոդել (hy) (zodel)
• Azerbaijani: lehimləmək, lehim vurmaq
• Bulgarian: запоя́вам (zapojávam), споя́вам (bg) (spojávam)
• Catalan: soldar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焊接 (zh) (hànjiē)

• Czech: pájet, letovat
• Danish: lodde
• Dutch: solderen (nl)
• Esperanto: luti (eo)
• Finnish: juottaa (fi)
• French: souder (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: löten (de)
• Gujarati: રેણ કરવું (reṇ karvũ)
• Hebrew: הלחים (he) (hilkhím)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: forraszt (hu)
• Icelandic: lóða, brasa, sjóða saman, kveikja (is), kveikja saman
• Irish: sádráil
• Italian: saldare (it)
• Japanese: はんだづけする (ja) (handazuke suru)
• Kazakh: дәнекерлеу (dänekerleu)
• Khmer: ផ្សារ (km) (phsaa)
• Korean: 납땜하다 (napttaemhada)
• Latin: plumbō (la)
• Latvian: lodēt
• Macedonian: леми (lemi)
• Maori: tūhoto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lodde

  Nynorsk: lodde

• Persian: لحیم کردن (lahim kardan)
• Piedmontese: saldé
• Polish: lutować (pl) impf
• 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 (blandamente / al blando)
• Swedish: löda (sv)
• Thai: บัดกรี (th) (bàt-grii)
• Tibetan: ཚ་ལ་བཏང (tsha la btang)
• Turkish: lehimlemek (tr)
• Ukrainian: пая́ти impf (pajáty)
• Vietnamese: hàn (vi)
• Welsh: sodro (cy)
• Yiddish: לייטן (leytn)

See also

• braze
• flux
• weld

Anagrams

• Elrods, Loders, dorsel, resold

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zolder, from Middle Dutch solre, solder, from Old Dutch *solari, *soleri, from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl.dər/

Noun

solder (plural solders, diminutive soldertjie)

1. attic

Derived terms

• brandsolder
• solderkamer

French

Etymology

From solde +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl.de/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

solder

1. to close (a deal)
2. 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)

infinitive	simple	solder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soldant /sɔl.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soldé /sɔl.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	solde /sɔld/	soldes /sɔld/	solde /sɔld/	soldions /sɔl.djɔ̃/	soldiez /sɔl.dje/	soldent /sɔld/
	imperfect2	soldasse /sɔl.das/	soldasses /sɔl.das/	soldât /sɔl.da/	soldassions /sɔl.da.sjɔ̃/	soldassiez /sɔl.da.sje/	soldassent /sɔl.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	solde /sɔld/	—	soldons /sɔl.dɔ̃/	soldez /sɔl.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• solde
• solderie
• soldeur

Further reading

• “solder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• drôles

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch soldeer, from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔldɛr]
• Hyphenation: sol‧dèr

Noun

solder (plural solder-solder)

1. solder: any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small

   Synonym: patri

Derived terms

• disolder
• menyolder

Further reading

• “solder”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016