fuse
See also: fusé
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Noun
fuse (plural fuses)
- A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze (US)
- (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze
- (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
- (figurative) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
- When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
- A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
- A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Usage notes
Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.
Derived terms
Translations
cord
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device igniting charge
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device preventing overloading of a circuit
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indicating tendency to lose temper
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Etymology 2
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Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).
Verb
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- (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- (intransitive) To melt together.
- To furnish with or install a fuse.
- (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
Synonyms
- (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
- (melt together): meld, smelt
Translations
transitive: to melt together
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intransitive: to melt together
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transitive: to furnish with a fuse
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
fuse
- first-person singular present indicative of fuser
- third-person singular present indicative of fuser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- second-person singular imperative of fuser
Italian
Adjective
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective fuso.
Noun
fuse f pl
Participle
fuse f pl
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular past historic of fondere
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) fūse
References
- “fuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
- fu (informal)
Venetian
Verb
fuse
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