fuse

Meanings

Noun

• A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
• The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
• A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
• A tendency to lose one's temper.
• 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.

Verb

• To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
• To melt together.
• To furnish with or install a fuse.
• 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

Related

Similar words

• meld, smelt

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus ("spindle").