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
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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
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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
Brass tubing is more easily soldered, but not so good to braze, and generally not so strong as copper, other things being equal.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
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
"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
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
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
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
After several months on the road, a brazed joint in the back-pressure sensor has been breaking and causing AMC's engines to emit 50% more oxides of nitrogen than the law allows.
From Time Magazine Archive
The piston ring removers are easily made from thin strips of sheet metal securely brazed or soldered to a light wire handle.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
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
Gun-metal and tap-metal do not lend themselves to brazing so readily as iron or yellow brass, and are usually more conveniently treated by means of silver solder.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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