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braze

1 American  
[brayz] / breɪz /

verb (used with object)

brazed, brazing
  1. to make of brass.

  2. to cover or ornament with or as if with brass.

  3. to make brasslike.


braze 2 American  
[brayz] / breɪz /

verb (used with object)

Metallurgy.
brazed, brazing
  1. to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.


braze 1 British  
/ breɪz /

verb

  1. to decorate with, make like, or make of brass

  2. to make like brass, as in hardness

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

braze 2 British  
/ breɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to make a joint between (two metal surfaces) by fusing a layer of brass or high-melting solder between them

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the high-melting solder or alloy used in brazing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

In case it is necessary to braze on the inside of a tube or any deep recess, the spelter may be placed on a flat rod long enough to reach to the farthest point.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

"I do be thinkin' I saw a break in the beastly ould fog beyont us; yis, an' by the powers, it's a braze that fans me cheek at this identical minute!"

From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Louis Arundel

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

"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

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 engine and parts are stamped out, then brazed into a single piece by melting pure copper into all the joints, baking in a hydrogen furnace.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new hooks come in sizes 8/0 through 14/0 with a nickel finish and brazed rings.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the top of each rod fix a specially-made ferrule, bent or brazed to about the angle of 45 deg.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

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

A still softer brazing metal is composed of half copper, three-eighths zinc and one-eighth tin.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

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