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Fuse

//fjuːz// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.

    "The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion."

  2. 2
    A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
  3. 3
    any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant wordnet
  4. 4
    A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.; An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
  5. 5
    an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded wordnet
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  1. 6
    The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
  2. 7
    A tendency to lose one's temper. figuratively

    "When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse."

  3. 8
    A kind of match for starting a fire:; A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
  4. 9
    A kind of match for starting a fire:; A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Verb
  1. 1
    To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
  2. 2
    To liquify by heat; melt. transitive

    "Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)"

  3. 3
    mix together different elements wordnet
  4. 4
    To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. transitive

    "That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]"

  5. 5
    make liquid or plastic by heating wordnet
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  1. 6
    To melt together. intransitive
  2. 7
    become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat wordnet
  3. 8
    To combine through nuclear fusion. ergative
  4. 9
    equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse wordnet
  5. 10
    To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent. transitive
  6. 11
    To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing. intransitive

    "When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch."

  7. 12
    To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

Etymology 2

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

Etymology 3

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

Etymology 4

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

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