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Paste vs Solder - What's the difference?

paste | solder |

As nouns the difference between paste and solder

is that paste is a soft mixture, in particular while solder is any of various alloys, often of tin and lead, that are used to join small pieces of metal together.

As verbs the difference between paste and solder

is that paste is to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste while solder is to join with (or as if with) solder.

paste

English

(wikipedia paste)

Noun

  • A soft mixture, in particular:
  • # One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  • # One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
  • # One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  • (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
  • A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  • (obsolete) Pasta.
  • (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
  • Verb

    (past)
  • To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  • (computing) To insert a piece of (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  • (informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
  • * 1943 , , chapter 23,
  • He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
  • (informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
  • Anagrams

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    solder

    English

    (wikipedia solder)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any of various alloys, often of tin and lead, that are used to join small pieces of metal together
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To join with (or as if with) solder.
  • Antonyms

    * desolder

    Derived terms

    * solderer * soldering iron

    See also

    * braze * flux * weld

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