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fuse

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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fuse (plural fuses)

  1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
    • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
      The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
    1. (cellular automata) 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.
  3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
    Synonym: fuze
  4. (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
    When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
  5. A kind of match for starting a fire:
    1. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
    2. A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Usage notes
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  • Some professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings, preferring the latter for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”. Both spellings, however, are also used for either sense.
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Verb

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fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

  1. To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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fuse (plural fuses)

  2. (electrical engineering) 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.
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Verb

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fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

  2. (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.
    • 1891, Dmitri Mendeleev, The Principles of Chemistry (1905) 3rd edition, Vol. 2, p.553, Tr. George Kamensky, of Основы химии (1867)
      Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)
  4. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:
      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: […]
    • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
      All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
    • 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:
      Actually the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Rutland Railroads already are doing so; if they are fused, they would have a combined route mileage of 5,269 and assets totalling £318 million, [...].
  5. (intransitive) To melt together.
  7. (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.
  8. (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
  9. (intransitive, electricity, of a circuit) To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
    When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
  10. (organic chemistry) 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.
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French

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fuse

  1. inflection of fuser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.ze/
  • Rhymes: -uze
  • Hyphenation: fù‧se

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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fuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of fuso

Participle

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fuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of fuso

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fuse f pl

  1. plural of fusa

Etymology 3

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Verb

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fuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Japanese

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Romanization

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fuse

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ふせ

Latin

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Participle

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fūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fūsus

Adverb

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fūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)

  1. widely, extensively, broadly, copiously, diffusely
  2. in greater detail
  3. loosely, roughly, relaxed

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)

  1. rush

Adjective

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fuse

  1. inflection of fus:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • fusa (verb, a infinitive)

Verb

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fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)

  1. rush

Adjective

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fuse

  1. inflection of fus:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural
  2. neuter of fusen

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Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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fuse

  1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
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  • fu (informal)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fuse n

  1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetan

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Verb

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fuse

  1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
  2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
  3. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser
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