Fuse

[fjuːz] or [fjuz]

Definition

(noun.) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.

(noun.) an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.

(verb.) make liquid or plastic by heating; 'The storm fused the electric mains'.

(verb.) become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat; 'The substances fused at a very high temperature'.

(verb.) equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse.

Typist: Stacey--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

(v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together.

(v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

(v. i.) To be blended, as if melted together.

(n.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.

Typist: Ruth

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Melt, liquefy (by heat), smelt.[2]. Amalgamate, blend together, make homogeneous.

v. n. Melt, be fused.

Editor: Luke

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Liquefy, melt, smelt, amalgamate, commingle, consolidate

ANT:Disunite, disincorporate, diffuse, disamalgamate, Fusion,[See FUSE_and_BLEND]

Typed by Dave

Definition

n. a tube filled with combustible matter for firing mines discharging shells &c.

v.t. to melt: to liquefy by heat.—v.i. to be melted: to be reduced to a liquid.—n. Fusibil′ity.—adjs. Fū′sible that may be fused or melted—(Milt.) Fū′sile Fū′sil.—ns. Fū′sing-point the temperature at which any solid substance becomes liquid; Fū′sion act of melting: the state of fluidity from heat: a close union of things as if melted together.—Aqueous fusion the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallisation; Dry fusion the liquefaction produced in salts by heat after the water of crystallisation has been expelled; Igneous fusion the melting of anhydrous salts by heat without decomposition.

Typist: Natalie

Examples

Typist: Ora

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