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FUSE

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noun

a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.

fuze (def. 1).

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verb (used with object)

fuze (def. 3).

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Idiom

have a short fuse, Informal. to anger easily; have a quick temper.

Origin:
1635–45; < Italian fuso < Latin fūsus spindle

Related forms

fuse·less, adjective

fuse·like, adjective

Example Sentences

One blown fuse can create many annoyances for car owners.

Exactly how two hydrogen nuclei could fuse at room temperature has not been elaborated.

But in turtles, the ribs grow over the shoulder blades and fuse to form the upper shell.

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One blown fuse can create many annoyances for car owners.

Exactly how two hydrogen nuclei could fuse at room temperature has not been elaborated.

But in turtles, the ribs grow over the shoulder blades and fuse to form the upper shell.

The lift charge also ignites the delay fuse when it fires.

Make a fuse out of a small piece of paper towel by twisting it and dipping it in ethanol.

The electric wiring is original, down to the fuse box.

Deuterium is easier to fuse than normal hydrogen, and all fusion experiments use it.

Then he yanks the fuse and heaves the stick of dynamite over the ridge.

The wipers and headlights stay on and you have to pull there fuses in the fuse box to get them to go out.

Yew trees can live so long because new shoots from the trunk fuse with it.

Ridging of the suture line can also occur when the bony plates fuse together too early.

Or pairs of blastocysts can fuse and develop into a normal baby, who grows into a healthy adult.

The machine hopes to trap and squeeze hydrogen isotopes until they fuse together to form helium, releasing energy.

If all works out, tremendous amounts of energy will get released when the lasers fuse the hydrogen atoms to make helium.

Colleges across the county are engaged in a grand social experiment to fuse academic and social life.

Once the printing is complete, the structure is left for a day or two, to allow the droplets to fuse together.

As the droplets grow, they fuse and run off in straight channels to be collected at the film's edge.

Can be hardwired into fuse box so you don't have to charge the battery.

Unplug the cord, remove the fuse from the fuse box, or turn off the circuit breakers.

Thermal fuse or circuit breaker would put an end to the issue for good.

Rebney is less a laughingstock than a charismatic ham with a short fuse.

The new project would use infrared light to fuse nanocomposite metal-ceramic and polymer coatings onto steel.

The bill, which has yet to be voted on, is patterned on even more aggressive efforts in other states to fuse such issues.

The website is a relief valve for totally frustrated officials to blow a fuse.

On the way to check his fuse box, he peeked out the window.

Two hydrogen atoms are two elements of space-time that fuse into one element of space time.

Heat is released when molecules fuse in the freezing process and the rain wall grows, collapsing the cyclone's eye next door.

Rotting crop stored under tarps during the embargo was certainly the fuse that started the fire of poverty among farmers.

The viral gene products cause cultured cells to fuse together as they would in the.

Let dry, and insert the fuse in the center of the cone.

Go to the service panel or fuse box, where the municipal power line enters the home.

Produced when two atoms fuse into one, fusion energy could satisfy huge chunks of future demand.

Then he led a project that made a variable-time fuse to explode artillery shells as they neared their targets.

The fuse is lit when the contested activity is at last allowed to proceed, despite the outstanding claim.

Then the shell starts to develop as the ribs fuse together and encase the shoulder blades.

And while the acetylene torch can leave behind molten metal to fuse back together, the oxy-gas torch makes a clean cut.

Yet they fuse on the page with a power and blunt beauty whose mechanics are difficult to trace even when you look closely.

Konrad says the brake failure was nothing more than a blown fuse that was promptly replaced.

Small circuit breakers that screw into the fuse socket are available at home centers and electrical supply stores.

Carbon was used to fuse iron into steel, and as the main element in graphite.

The new nose and steel casings add weight and strength, and the fuse has been changed to delay.

Deuterons and neutrons can fuse to create a tritium nucleus with one proton and two neutrons.

The company's new ambition is to fuse fashion and information.

The bug communicates wirelessly with the standard fuse box.

In this hour of reckoning, thin air and night silence fuse with.

Infusion of calcium stimulates these packets to fuse with the cell membrane and release the neurotransmitter out of the cell.

Put another way, professionals fuse their consciousness into the decision tree of the game.

Suddenly, you realize that you've got plastic explosives and a fuse and a match and that you can blow your way out of there.

They became effective exactly seven months to the day after the lighting of the fuse that was to touch.

Downward mobility is an ever-shortening fuse leading to profound consequences.

He sits at his workbench amid a pile of electronic parts, squinting at a burnt fuse.

Oh sure, they'll still blow the occasional fuse every now and then.

However, as an added precaution it is still recommended that the main switch be turned off, or the appropriate fuse removed.

But too often the ions run into the grids before they fuse.

Scientists hope to create temperatures high enough to cause the atoms to fuse into a helium atom.

Trip the breaker or remove the fuse of the circuit containing the switches and outlet.

Later she manages to fuse her fantasies with her artistic urges in a manner both funny and touching for the man she.

He works on a perilously short fuse and an awfully long.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.

verb (used with object)

to combine or blend by melting together; melt.

to unite or blend into a whole, as if by melting together: The author skillfully fuses these fragments into a cohesive whole.

verb (used without object)

to become liquid under the action of heat; melt: At a relatively low temperature the metal will fuse.

to become united or blended: The two groups fused to create one strong union.

Chiefly British. to overload an electric circuit so as to burn out a fuse.

Idiom

blow a fuse, Informal. to lose one's temper; become enraged: If I'm late again, they'll blow a fuse.

Origin:
1675–85; < Latin fūsus melted, poured, cast, past participle of fundere

Synonyms
2. See melt.

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World English Dictionary

fuse or fuze¹ (fjuːz)

—n
1.	a lead of combustible black powder in a waterproof covering (safety fuse), or a lead containing an explosive (detonating fuse), used to fire an explosive charge
2.	any device by which an explosive charge is ignited
3.	blow a fuse See blow

—vb
4.	(tr) to provide or equip with such a fuse

[C17: from Italian fuso spindle, from Latin fūsus]

fuze or fuze¹

—n

—vb

[C17: from Italian fuso spindle, from Latin fūsus]

'fuseless or fuze¹

—*adj*

fuse² (fjuːz)

—vb
1.	to unite or become united by melting, esp by the action of heat: to fuse borax and copper sulphate at a high temperature
2.	to become or cause to become liquid, esp by the action of heat; melt
3.	to join or become combined; integrate
4.	(tr) to equip (an electric circuit, plug, etc) with a fuse
5.	(Brit) to fail or cause to fail as a result of the blowing of a fuse: the lights fused

—n
6.	a protective device for safeguarding electric circuits, etc, containing a wire that melts and breaks the circuit when the current exceeds a certain value

[C17: from Latin fūsus melted, cast, poured out, from fundere to pour out, shed; sense 5 influenced by fuse¹]

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Word Origin & History

fuse

1680s, "to melt," back formation from fusion. Figurative sense of "blending of different things" is first recorded 1776. Related: Fused; fusing.

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fuse

also fuze, 1640s, from It. fuso "spindle" (so called because the originals were long, thin tubes filled with gunpowder), from L. fusus "spindle," of uncertain origin. Influenced by Fr. fusée "spindleful of hemp fiber," and obsolete English fusee "musket fired by a fuse." Meaning of "device that

breaks an electrical circuit" first recorded 1884, so named for its shape, but erroneously attributed to fuse (v.) because it melts.

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fuse (fy

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Noun

A safety device that protects an electric circuit from becoming overloaded. Fuses contain a length of thin wire (usually of a metal alloy) that melts and breaks the circuit if too much current flows through it. They were traditionally used to protect electronic equipment and prevent fires, but have largely been replaced by circuit breakers.
A cord of readily combustible material that is lighted at one end to carry a flame along its length to detonate an explosive at the other end.

Verb