Fuse

Quick meaning: Fuse is a noun meaning A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
2. A kind of match for starting a fire:
3. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
4. (military, mining, manufacturing, sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
5. (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.
6. (manufacturing, mining, military, sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.

When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.

The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.

Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)

Word Forms

• fuses
• fusing
• fused

Synonyms for fuse

Depending on context, synonyms include meld, smelt, fusee, match, coalesce, conflate.

Antonyms for fuse

Common opposites include defuse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fuze, fusee, fuzee, mix, immix, blend.

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