solder

Meanings

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 in analogy to solder that joins metals.

Verb

• to join items together, or to coat them with solder
• to join things as if with solder.

Related

Opposite words

• desolder

Origin

• From Middle English souder, soudere, soudur, from Old French soldure, soudeure, from Old French souder, solder (> Middle English souden), from Latin solidāre, present active infinitive of solidō.