fuse
/fjuːz/
fuse noun: a wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive. Also the alternative spelling of fuze.
Noun (1)
fuse (plural fuses)
- A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
- The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220
- An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
- A tendency to lose one's temper.
- When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
- A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
- Synonyms:
- fusee
- A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Verb (1)
fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
Noun (2)
fuse (plural fuses)
- 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.
Verb (2)
fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
- To liquify by heat; melt.
- 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)
- To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- sensations and ideas fusing intimately together
- 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: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69
- To melt together.
- To combine through nuclear fusion.
- To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
- 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.
- 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.
Also used as
fuse is also the alternative spelling of fuze.
fuse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fuse in Hindi
- फ्यूज, फ्यूज करें
fuse in Tamil
- ஃபுயுஸ்
fuse in Marathi
- फ्यूज, फ्युज, फ्युझ
fuse in Urdu
- فیوز, فیوز کریں, فیوز کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- fuse in Bengali
- ফিউজ, ফিউজ করা, ফিউজ করতে
- fuse in Telugu
- ఫ్యూజ్, ఫ్యూస్, ఫ్యూజ్ చేయండి
- fuse in Malayalam
- ഫ്യൂസ്, ഫ്യൂസ് ചെയ്യുക, ഫ്യൂസ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- fuse in Kannada
- ಫ್ಯೂಸ್, ಫ್ಯೂಸ್ ಮಾಡಲು
- fuse in Punjabi
- ਫਿਊਜ਼, ਫਿਊਜ, ਫਿਊਜ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- fuse in Gujarati
- ફ્યુઝ, ફ્યૂઝ, ફ્યુઝ કરો
- fuse in Odia
- ଫିଉଜ, ଫିଉଜ୍, ଫ୍ଯ଼ୁଜ୍
- fuse in Nepali
- फ्यूज, फ्युज, फ्यूज गर्नुहोस्
- fuse in Tagalog
- tunawin
- fuse in Arabic
- فَتِيل fatīl, مُنْصَهِرَة munṣahira, مصهر miṣhar
- fuse in Malay
- sumbu, fius
- fuse in Indonesian
- sekring, pengaman lebur
- fuse in Persian
- فیوز fyuz
- fuse in Thai
- ชนวน chánuan, ฟิวส์ fiw
- fuse in Vietnamese
- cầu chì
Examples of fuse in a sentence
- Be careful of what you say; he has a short fuse.
- When he learned that his daughter had eloped, he blew a fuse.
- Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
Synonyms of fuse
Forms of fuse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fuses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fuses |
| present participle | fusing |
| past participle | fused |
| past | fused |
Origin of fuse
From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
Words formed from fuse
- blow a fuse
- fuseboard
- fusebox
- fuseless
- fuseway
- fuse wire
- Bickford fuse
- concussion fuse
- defuse
- fuse box
- fuse plug
- hobby fuse
- long fuse
- multifuse
- percussion fuse
- polyfuse
- proximity fuse
- resettable fuse
- safety fuse
- short fuse
- time fuse
- fuselike
- re-fuse
- autofuse
- circumfuse
- electrofuse
- fusogen
- fusome
- fusor
- interfuse
- refuse
- unfuse
Phrases with fuse
Words that rhyme with fuse
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bemuse
- choose
- excuse
- misuse
- muse
- ooze
- peruse
- accuse
- booze
- druse
- news
- ruse
- snooze
- suffuse
- transfuse
- who's
- whose
- circumfuse
- cooze
- defuse
- diffuse
- enthuse
- flues
- fuze
- jalouse
- mews
- perfuse
- snooz
- Toulouse
- twos
- yous
- 'scuse
- accrues
- aloos
- bambooze
- blooze
- boos
- boose
- brews
- canoes
- chews
- clews
- clues
- construes
- contuse
- coos
- coups
- crews
Questions about fuse
- What does fuse mean?
- Fuse means a wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
- What is fuse in Hindi?
- Fuse in Hindi is फ्यूज, फ्यूज करें. See Fuse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fuse?
- Fuse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fuse?
- Fuse is pronounced /fjuːz/.
- What is the plural of fuse?
- The plural of fuse is fuses.
Words near fuse in the dictionary
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