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
- This fuse was superseded by one invented by General Bormann of Belgium, which greatly added to the value of case shot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A fuse is made by combining a number of metals in such a way that the resulting substance has a low melting point and a high electrical resistance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So great is the heat developed that the metals melt and fuse, and on cooling show perfect union. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It then consisted of a comparatively thin shell filled with bullets, having a fuse lit by the firing of the gun, and adapted to explode the shell in front of the object fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Until recently, dynamiting was attended with serious danger, owing to the fact that the person who applied the torch to the fuse could not make a safe retreat before the explosion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The danger of overloading may be eliminated by inserting in the circuit a fuse or other safety device. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- All metallic sodium and potassium are now obtained by electrolysis of fused hydroxides or chlorides (Pats. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1892 it was discovered that lime and coal fused together in the intense heat of the electric furnace formed a crystalline, metallic-looking substance called calcium carbide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It blushed so ruddily and vividly, that the hues of the walls and the variegated tints of the dresses seemed all fused in one warm glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Metals are fused and welded by the use of the electric current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These matches were fuses of some slow-burning fiber, like tow, which would keep a spark for a considerable time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No special tool is required for setting these fuses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The time fuses all contain a percussion element to insure their exploding on impact if not previously exploded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The insight directly gained fuses with what is told. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One comprehensive party platform fusing every interest is impossible and undesirable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The arc of flame passed from the top of one carbon to the other, fusing the separating layer of kaolin, and the whole burned down together as a candle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This fusing of one god with another is called _theocrasia_, and nowhere was it more vigorously going on than in Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ora