braze
1 Americanverb (used with object)
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to make of brass.
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to cover or ornament with or as if with brass.
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to make brasslike.
verb (used with object)
verb
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to decorate with, make like, or make of brass
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to make like brass, as in hardness
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of braze1
before 1000; Middle English brasen, Old English bræsian; see brass
Origin of braze2
1575–85; < French braser to solder (MF), burn ( Old French ) < Germanic; compare Swedish brasa, Danish brase to roast; see braise
Vocabulary lists containing braze
Example Sentences
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You don't braze it in liquid, so it's roasting it inside a pot that's covered, and then uncovering it to get some color on it.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
H. B. can braze the ends of his brass plate to make a cylinder of it.
"And you can wind the breech with wire, and braze it on; can't you?" persisted Tom.
From Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Put a chalk mark each side where you want to braze.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
If you think he will be overpaid for his services, you may braze the duty of a schoolmaster, who is very much needed, to that of a ghostly adviser.
From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat
Each features a DAT55 titanium L-shaped face, which like the woods is brazed to a heavier steel body.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 15, 2019
The face is brazed to the body, a process that joins the two dissimilar metals without welding to save additional weight.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 15, 2019
The modification took the form of a sleeve that was brazed, or soldered, around the pipes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw, 42, is the mystic among sculptor-welders; his brazed metal rods seem to float in the air like airy skyscraper girders.
From Time Magazine Archive
The method of attachment also is indicative of this early period: the heavy vertical wire is brazed to one end of the reverse, and the L-shaped tongue to the other.
From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell
I think people have this impulse to sear your meat before brazing it.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022
Still plenty brazing the rain and potential tempest to get along though - great to see:
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2019
He studied pictures and documents about the original gate, which was installed in 1936, and used techniques like high-temperature brazing, which was more common than soldering in the 1930s.
From Reuters ● Apr. 16, 2015
The CB Pro F2 also employs the Exotics line’s trademarked brazing manufacturing technique.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
This book contains special instructions on electric starting, lighting and ignition systems, tire repairing and rebuilding, autogenous welding, brazing and soldering, heat treatment of steel, latest timing practice, eight and twelve-cylinder motors, etc.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
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