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Definition: Meaning of, fuse in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / fjuːz /

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fuse fuses
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  1. a short thin piece of wire inside electrical equipment which prevents damage by melting and stopping the electricity when there is too much power
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  2. American English a thing that delays a bomb, FIREWORK etc from exploding until you are a safe distance away, or makes it explode at a particular time
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  3. a short fuse if someone has a short fuse, they get angry very easily
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fuse fused fused
Present Participle Third Person Singular
fusing fuses
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  1. to join together physically, or to make things join together, and become a single thing
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  2. to combine different qualities, ideas, or things, or to be combined [=  merge]
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  3. British English if electrical equipment fuses, or if you fuse it, it stops working because a fuse has melted
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  4. technical if a rock or metal fuses, or if,you fuse it, it becomes liquid by being heated
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fuse used in phrases

  • blow a fuse (verb)
    1. get very angry and fly into a rage
  • cartridge fuse (noun)
    1. a fuse cased in a tube
  • detonating fuse (noun)
    1. a fuse containing an explosive
  • electrical fuse (noun)
    1. an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded
  • fuse box (noun)
    1. a box that contains the fuses of the electrical system of a house or other building
  • plug fuse (noun)
    1. a fuse with a thread that screws into a socket
  • safety fuse (noun)
    1. a slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter; used to ignite detonators from a distance
    2. an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded
  • short fuse (noun)
    1. a tendency to become angry quickly
  • time-fuse (noun)
    1. especially to explode a bomb a fuse made to burn for a given time
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