fuse

See also: fusé

English

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Etymology 1

From ItalianCategory:English terms derived from Italian#FUSE fuso and FrenchCategory:English terms derived from French#FUSE fusée, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FUSE fūsus (“spindle”).

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)Category:English lemmas#FUSECategory:English nouns#FUSECategory:English countable nouns#FUSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
    Synonyms: (archaic) fusee, (obsolete) match
  2. (cellular automataCategory:en:Cellular automata#FUSE) 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.
  4. (manufacturingCategory:en:Manufacturing#FUSE, miningCategory:en:Mining#FUSE, militaryCategory:en:Military#FUSE, sometimes proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#FUSE) Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
  5. (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
    When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.Category:English terms with usage examples#FUSE
  6. A kind of match for starting a fire:
    1. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
      Synonym: fusee
    2. A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Usage notes

Both fuse and fuze are used for all senses by some native speakers, but some professional publications about explosives, munitions, etc. distinguish the two, using fuze for detonator devices and fuse for all other senses.

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Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)Category:English lemmas#FUSECategory:English verbs#FUSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
  2. (militaryCategory:en:Military#FUSE, miningCategory:en:Mining#FUSE, manufacturingCategory:en:Manufacturing#FUSE, sometimes proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#FUSE) Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FUSECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰewd-#FUSE

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”)Category:English back-formations#FUSE, first to verbal sense, then noun.

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)Category:English lemmas#FUSECategory:English nouns#FUSECategory:English countable nouns#FUSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  2. (electrical engineeringCategory:en:Electrical engineering#FUSE) 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.
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Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)Category:English lemmas#FUSECategory:English verbs#FUSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUSE) 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°...)
  4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUSE) 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: […]
      Category:English terms with quotations#FUSE
    • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
      All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
      Category:English terms with quotations#FUSE
    • 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, [...].
      Category:English terms with quotations#FUSE
  5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FUSE) To melt together.
  7. (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#FUSE, physicsCategory:en:Physics#FUSE, astronomyCategory:en:Astronomy#FUSE) To combine through nuclear fusion.
  8. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUSE, electricityCategory:en:Electricity#FUSE) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
  9. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FUSE, electricityCategory:en:Electricity#FUSE, 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#FUSE
  10. (organic chemistryCategory:en:Organic chemistry#FUSE) 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.
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Anagrams

Category:English ergative verbs#FUSE Category:English contranyms#FUSE Category:en:Fire#FUSECategory:en:Light sources#FUSE

French

Pronunciation

Verb

fuseCategory:French non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:French verb forms#FUSECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. inflection of fuser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

fuse f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Italian adjective forms#FUSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. feminine plural of fuso

Participle

fuse f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Italian past participle forms#FUSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. feminine plural of fuso

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Italian noun forms#FUSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. plural of fusa

Etymology 3

Verb

fuseCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Italian verb forms#FUSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Japanese

Romanization

fuseCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Japanese romanizations#FUSECategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#FUSECategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ふせ

Latin

Participle

fūseCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Latin participle forms#FUSECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. vocative masculine singular of fūsus

Adverb

fūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)Category:Latin lemmas#FUSECategory:Latin adverbs#FUSECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. widely, extensively, broadly, copiously, diffusely
  2. in greater detail
  3. loosely, roughly, relaxed

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#FUSECategory:Norwegian Bokmål verbs#FUSECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. rush

Adjective

fuseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Norwegian Bokmål adjective forms#FUSECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. inflection of fus:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • fusa (verb, a infinitive)

Verb

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#FUSECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#FUSECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

  1. rush

Adjective

fuseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk adjective forms#FUSECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. inflection of fus:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural
  2. neuter of fusen

References

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

fūseCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Old English noun forms#FUSECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. dative singular of fūs

Adjective

fūseCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Old English adjective forms#FUSECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. inflection of fūs:
    1. strong accusative feminine singular
    2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
    3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
    4. weak nominative feminine/neuter singular
    5. weak accusative neuter singular

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

fuseCategory:Romanian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Romanian verb forms#FUSECategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
  • fu (informal)

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse nCategory:Romanian non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Romanian noun forms#FUSECategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#FUSE

  1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetan

Verb

fuseCategory:Venetan non-lemma forms#FUSECategory:Venetan verb forms#FUSECategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#FUSECategory:Pages with entries#FUSECategory:Pages with 10 entries#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
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