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fuse ufse fsue sfue usfe sufe fues ufes feus efus uefs eufs fseu sfeu fesu efsu sefu esfu usef suef uesf eusf seuf esuf

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Definitions and meaning of fuse

fuse

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo͞oz, IPA^(key): /fjuːz/
• Hyphenation: fuse
• Rhymes: -uːz

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)

1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
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.

5. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
6. 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 of “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

• re-fuse

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire

Translations

Verb

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.
5. (intransitive) To melt together.
6. (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent.
7. (transitive, electricity, of a circuit) To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating.

8. (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

Anagrams

• feus

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fusent, fuses

Verb

fuse

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Adjective

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

Participle

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

Etymology 3

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Japanese

Romanization

fuse

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふせ

Latin

Participle

fūse

1. vocative masculine singular of fūsus

Adverb

fūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)

1. widely, extensively
2. in great detail
3. loosely, roughly

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

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

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

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

References

• “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• fusa (verb) (a infinitive)

Verb

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

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

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

References

• “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfu.se]

Etymology 1

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

Synonyms

• fu (informal)

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse n

1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetian

Verb

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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