braze vs solder

braze

verb
  • To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. 

  • To cover with brass, or as with brass. 

noun
  • A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. 

solder

verb
  • to join items together, or to coat them with solder 

  • to join things as if with solder. 

noun
  • Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small. 

  • Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals. 

How often have the words braze and solder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )