fuse

• enPR: fyo͞oz, IPA^(key): /fjuːz/

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• Hyphenation: fuse
• Homophone: fuze
• Rhymes: -uːz

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

fuse (plural fuses)

1. A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.

   Synonyms: (archaic) fusee, (obsolete) match

   • 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.

2. (cellular automata) 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. (manufacturing, mining, military, sometimes proscribed) 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.

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.

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.

• (wick or cord used to convey flame to an explosive): long fuse, short fuse, percussion fuse, proximity fuse, black match; quick match, slow match (obsolete)

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
2. (military, mining, manufacturing, sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

fuse (plural fuses)

2. (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.

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

2. (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°...)

4. (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: […]

   • 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.

   • 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, [...].

5. (intransitive) To melt together.
7. (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.
8. (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
9. (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.

10. (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.

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

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• Homophones: fusent, fuses

fuse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ze/
• Rhymes: -uze
• Hyphenation: fù‧se

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

fuse

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふせ

fūse

1. vocative masculine singular of fūsus

fūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)

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

• “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

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)

1. rush

fuse

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

• “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• fusa (verb, a infinitive)

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)

1. rush

fuse

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

• “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.se/, [ˈfuː.ze]

fūse

1. dative singular of fūs

fūse

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfu.se]

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

• fu (informal)

fuse n

1. indefinite plural of fus

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