"fuse" Definition

Definitions for the word "fuse" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To unite or blend, as if melted together.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To be blended, as if melted together.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
(-sing) 1 melt with intense heat. 2 blend into one whole by melting. 3 provide (an electric circuit) with a fuse. 4 a (of an appliance) fail owing to the melting of a fuse. B cause to do this. n. Device with a strip or wire of easily melted metal placed in an electric circuit so as to interrupt an excessive current by melting. [latin fundo fus- melt]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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