Fuse
To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
To unite or blend, as if melted together.
To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
To be blended, as if melted together.
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.
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Alt. of Fuze, plug
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Fuse Quotations
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Marilyn vos Savant
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Richard Morris
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Kary Mullis
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Chaim Potok
Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman
Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
Thomas Harrison
If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
Frank Bruno
Fuse Translations
fuse in Dutch is kousje, lont, lampepit
fuse in German is vereinigen, elektrische Sicherung, Sicherung
fuse in Norwegian is sikring, lunte
fuse in Spanish is espoleta, fusible
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