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braze

1 American  
[breyz] / 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  
[breyz] / 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

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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

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

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

Put a chalk mark each side where you want to braze.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

H. B. can braze the ends of his brass plate to make a cylinder of it.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

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

After that sleeve was brazed on, somebody should have studied the metallurgy, stresses and embrittlement, fatigue and all that.

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 statue is composed of layers of bronze brazed together.

From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery

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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