fuse
See also: fusé
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Noun
editfuse (plural fuses)
- 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.
- (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
- Synonym: fuze
- (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
- When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
- A kind of match for starting a fire:
Usage notes
edit- 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
editTranslations
editcord that conveys fire to an explosive device
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detonator
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tendency to lose one's temper
small device for starting a fire — see match
Verb
editfuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
- To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editBack-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
Noun
editfuse (plural fuses)
- (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
editTranslations
editdevice preventing overload of a circuit
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Verb
editfuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
- (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°...)
- 1891, Dmitri Mendeleev, The Principles of Chemistry (1905) 3rd edition, Vol. 2, p.553, Tr. George Kamensky, of Основы химии (1867)
- (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: […]
- 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, [...].
- (intransitive) To melt together.
- (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.
- (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
- (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.
- (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
edit- (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
- (melt together): meld, smelt
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittransitive: to melt together
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intransitive: to melt together
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transitive: to furnish with a fuse
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editVerb
editfuse
- inflection of fuser:
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editfuse f pl
Participle
editfuse f pl
Etymology 2
editNoun
editfuse f pl
Etymology 3
editVerb
editfuse
- third-person singular past historic of fondere
Japanese
editRomanization
editfuse
Latin
editParticiple
editfūse
Adverb
editfūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)
References
edit- “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.
- https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/adjective/4425/?h=fusius
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/fuse
- https://glosbe.com/la/en/fuse
Norwegian Bokmål
editVerb
editfuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)
Adjective
editfuse
References
edit- “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
edit- fusa (verb, a infinitive)
Verb
editfuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)
Adjective
editfuse
References
edit- “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editfuse
- third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
edit- fu (informal)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editfuse n
- indefinite plural of fus
Venetan
editVerb
editfuse
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