fuse

See also: fusé

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

fuse (plural fuses)

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

   Synonym: fuze (US)

3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze

5. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.
6. (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

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

7. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
8. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Usage notesEdit

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 termsEdit

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire
• short fuse

TranslationsEdit

cord

• Bulgarian: фити́л m (fitíl)
• Catalan: metxa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導火線 (zh), 导火线 (zh) (dǎohuǒxiàn), 導火索 (zh), 导火索 (zh) (dǎohuǒsuǒ), 導爆線 (zh), 导爆线 (zh) (dǎobàoxiàn)

• Czech: doutnák m
• Dutch: lont (nl) m, f
• Faroese: fjús n, krúttráður m
• Finnish: sytytyslanka (fi)
• French: cordeau (fr) m, mèche (fr)
• German: Zündschnur (de) f
• Greek: θρυαλλίδα (el) f (thryallída), φιτίλι (el) n (fitíli)
• Italian: miccia (it) f

• Japanese: 導火線 (どうかせん, dōkasen)
• Korean: 도화선 (dohwaseon)
• Malay: sumbu
• Maori: wiki
• Norwegian: lunte c
• Polish: lont (pl) m
• Portuguese: pavio (pt), rastilho (pt) m
• Russian: фити́ль (ru) m (fitílʹ), огнепрово́дный шнур m (ogneprovódnyj šnur)
• Serbo-Croatian: fìtīlj (sh) m
• Spanish: mecha (es) f
• Swedish: stubin (sv), stubintråd (sv)
• Thai: ชนวน (th) (chánuan)

device igniting charge

• Bulgarian: запа́лка (bg) f (zapálka)
• Catalan: espoleta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導火線 (zh), 导火线 (zh) (dǎohuǒxiàn), 信管 (zh) (xìnguǎn)

• Czech: doutnák m
• Dutch: lont (nl)
• Estonian: sütik
• Finnish: sytytin (fi)
• French: détonateur (fr) m
• German: Zünder (de) m
• Greek: θρυαλλίδα (el) f (thryallída), εμπύρευμα (el) n (empýrevma)
• Irish: aidhnín m
• Italian: miccia (it) f, innesco (it) m, detonatore (it) m

• Japanese: 導火線 (どうかせん, dōkasen), 信管 (しんかん, shinkan)
• Malay: fius
• Maori: wiki
• Norwegian: tennsats m, fenghette c
• Polish: zapalnik m
• Portuguese: pavio (pt)
• Russian: запа́л (ru) m (zapál), детона́тор (ru) m (detonátor)
• Serbo-Croatian: upàljāč (sh) m
• Spanish: espoleta f
• Swedish: tändrör
• Tagalog: tunawin
• Thai: ชนวน (th) (chánuan)

device preventing overloading of a circuit

• Afrikaans: smeltdraad
• Basque: fusible
• Bulgarian: бушо́н (bg) m (bušón)
• Catalan: fusible (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 保險絲 (zh), 保险丝 (zh) (bǎoxiǎnsī)

• Czech: pojistka (cs) f
• Danish: sikring c
• Dutch: zekering (nl)
• Faroese: sikring f
• Finnish: sulake (fi), varoke (fi)
• French: fusible (fr) m
• German: Sicherung (de) f
• Greek: τηκτασφάλεια f (tiktasfáleia)
• Hungarian: biztosíték (hu)
• Irish: fiús m
• Italian: fusibile (it) m
• Japanese: ヒューズ (hyūzu)

• Korean: 퓨즈 (pyujeu)
• Lithuanian: saugiklis m
• Malay: fius
• Maori: waea katiara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sikring (no) m

  Nynorsk: sikring f, m

• Persian: فیوز‎‎ (fa) (fyuz)
• Polish: bezpiecznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: fusível (pt) m
• Russian: пла́вкий предохрани́тель m (plávkij predoxranítelʹ), про́бка (ru) f (próbka) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: osigùrāč (sh) m

• Slovak: poistky pl, poistka f
• Sotho: lethose, fiyusi
• Spanish: fusible (es) m
• Swedish: säkring (sv), propp (sv)
• Thai: ฟิวส์ (th) (fiw)
• Welsh: ffiws f, ffiwsen f

indicating tendency to lose temper

• Catalan: corda (ca) f

• Finnish: pinna (fi)

Etymology 2Edit

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).

VerbEdit

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

1. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
2. (intransitive) To melt together.
3. To furnish with or install a fuse.
4. (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

SynonymsEdit

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

TranslationsEdit

transitive: to melt together

• Bulgarian: стапям (bg) (stapjam)
• Catalan: fondre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熔化 (zh) (rónghuà), 混合 (zh) (hùnhé)

• Dutch: versmelten (nl)
• Finnish: sulauttaa
• French: fondre (fr)
• German: verschmelzen (de)
• Greek: τήκω (el) (tíko), λιώνω (el) (lióno)

• Hebrew: מִזֵּג‎‎ (he) (mizzég)
• Italian: fondere (it)
• Manx: co-lheie
• Polish: stopić (pl), połączyć (pl)
• Portuguese: fundir (pt)
• Russian: сплавля́ть (ru) impf (splavljátʹ)
• Spanish: fundir (es)
• Swedish: sammansmälta

intransitive: to melt together

• Bulgarian: топя се (topja se)
• Catalan: fondre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熔化 (zh) (rónghuà), 混合 (zh) (hùnhé)

• Dutch: samensmelten (nl)
• Finnish: sulautua (fi)
• French: fusionner (fr)

• German: verschmelzen (de)
• Greek: τήκομαι (tíkomai)
• Hebrew: הִתְמַזֵּג‎‎ (hitmazzég)
• Italian: fondersi
• Manx: co-lheie
• Russian: сплавля́ться (ru) impf (splavljátʹsja)
• Swedish: sammansmälta

transitive: to furnish with a fuse

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝引信, 装引信 (zhuāng xìnguǎn)

• Dutch: smelten (nl)

• German: absichern (de)
• Swedish: säkra (sv)

AnagramsEdit

• feus

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Homophones: fusent, fuses

VerbEdit

fuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
5. second-person singular imperative of fuser

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

fuse f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective fuso.

NounEdit

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

ParticipleEdit

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

VerbEdit

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

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LatinEdit

ParticipleEdit

fūse

1. vocative masculine singular of fūsus

ReferencesEdit

• 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

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [fuˈse]

VerbEdit

fuse

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

SynonymsEdit

• fu (informal)

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VenetianEdit

VerbEdit

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