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Fuse   /fjuz/   Listen
Fuse

noun
1.
An electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.  Synonyms: electrical fuse, safety fuse.
2.
Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.  Synonyms: fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming.
verb
(past & past part. fused; pres. part. fusing)
1.
Mix together different elements.  Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, immix, meld, merge, mix.
2.
Become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat.
3.
Equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse.
4.
Make liquid or plastic by heating.



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"Fuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... at him with saucy eyes, in which burned two little flames of displeasure, that seemed to shoot up from the red spots glowing upon her cheeks. Lenorme looked at her. He had often seen her like this before, and knew that the shell was charged and the fuse lighted. But within lay a mixture even more explosive than he suspected; for not merely was there more of shame and fear and perplexity mingled with her love than he understood, but she was conscious of having now been false to him, and ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... he seized the end of a fuse projecting from one of the canisters and held the crimson end of his cigar against it until a sputter of sparks showed that it had caught. From this fuse he turned to the one in the second can ...
— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd
... of Canvey Island," I said. "There's no one to wake up there except the sea-gulls, and we can be out of sight round the corner before it explodes. I've got about twenty feet of fuse, which will give us at least a quarter of an ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... engaged upon his diabolical work by the aid of a carefully-shaded lantern. Another few seconds and Frobisher would have been too late, and the ship would have been blown into the air with all her crew; for the Prince was even then applying a light to the end of the fuse which he had already cut, the other extremity of which ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... is used to clean the surfaces of joints and seams to be soldered, also to keep them from oxidizing and to help the metals to fuse. ...
— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble


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