fuse

See also: fusé

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowing from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fusus (“spindle”).

NounEdit

fuse (plural fuses)

1. (also fuze in US) A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
2. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
3. A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.
4. Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

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

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.

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
• 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)
• 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 (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 m
• Greek: θρυαλλίδα (el) f (thryallída), εμπύρευμα (el) n (empýrevma)
• Irish: aidhnín m
• Italian: miccia (it) f, innesco (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 (chánuan)

device preventing overloading of a circuit

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

  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, 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

From fusion, "to melt" (back-formation).

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

TranslationsEdit

transitive: to melt together

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

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

• Dutch: versmelten
• 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, 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

1. feminine plural of fuso

VerbEdit

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

ParticipleEdit

fuse

1. feminine plural of fuso

NounEdit

fuse f

1. plural of fusa

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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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [fuˈse]

VerbEdit

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect form 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