# fuse
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: fyo͞oz, IPA: /fjuːz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: fuse
* Rhymes: -uːz

### Etymology 1

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

#### Noun

fuse (plural fuses)
* A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
** 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
* (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
    Synonym: fuze
* (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
    When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
* A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
* A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

##### Usage notes

* Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense of “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

##### Derived terms

* Bickford fuse
* concussion fuse
* defuse
* fuse box
* fuselike
* fuse plug
* multifuse
* percussion fuse
* polyfuse
* proximity fuse
* resettable fuse
* safety fuse
* short fuse
* time fuse

##### Translations
#### Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
* To furnish with or install a fuse to (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).

##### Derived terms

* re-fuse, re-fuse

### Etymology 2

Back-formation of fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

#### Noun

fuse (plural fuses)
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* blow a fuse
* fuseboard
* fusebox
* fuseless
* fuselike
* fuseway
* fuse wire

##### Translations
#### Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
* (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.
** 1891, Dmitri Mendeleev, The Principles of Chemistry (1905) 3rd edition, Vol. 2, p.553, Tr. George Kamensky, of Основы химии (1867)
    Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)
* (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLVI, page 69:That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
** 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:Actually the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Rutland Railroads already are doing so; if they are fused, they would have a combined route mileage of 5,269 and assets totalling £318 million, [...].
* (intransitive) To melt together.
* (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent.
* (transitive, electricity, of a circuit) To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating.
    When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
* (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings

##### Synonyms

* (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
* (melt together): meld, smelt

##### Derived terms

* autofuse
* circumfuse
* electrofuse
* fusogen
* fusome
* fusor
* interfuse
* refuse
* unfuse

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* feus

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Homophones: fusent, fuses

### Verb

fuse
* inflection of fuser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfu.ze/
* Rhymes: -uze
* Hyphenation: fù‧se

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

fuse f pl
* feminine plural of fuso

#### Participle

fuse f pl
* feminine plural of fuso

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fuse f pl
* plural of fusa

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

fuse
* third-person singular past historic of fondere

## Japanese
### Romanization

fuse
* Rōmaji transcription of ふせ

## Latin
### Participle

fūse
* vocative masculine singular of fūsus

### Adverb

fūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)
* widely, extensively
* in great detail
* loosely, roughly

### References

* “fuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)
* rush

### Adjective

fuse
* inflection of fus:
** definite singular
** plural

### References

* “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* fusa (verb, a infinitive)

### Verb

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)
* rush

### Adjective

fuse
* inflection of fus:
** definite singular
** plural
* neuter of fusen

### References

* “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfu.se]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

fuse
* third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

##### Synonyms

* fu (informal)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fuse n
* indefinite plural of fus

## Venetan
### Verb

fuse
* first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
* third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
* third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser