Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fuse
IPA transcription: [fj'uz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fuse, electrical_fuse, safety_fuse
    Meaning: an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
    Meaning: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
  • Synonyms: fuse
    Meaning: become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat; "The substances fused at a very high temperature"
Usage examples
  • K., O. K., don't blow a fuse," Deston said, resignedly.
  • They want to light the fuse and drop these bombs on Nyjord, the next planet.
  • The Convocation Chamber was silent, like a bomb with a defective fuse, for all of thirty seconds.
  • The brave girl dropped the pail of water that she had been carrying, picked up the fuse and applied it to the touch hole.
  • The man leaned over the rail and cast a small black object to which the sputtering fuse was attached, down to the main deck.
  • The charge had to be placed so swiftly and the fuse lit in such a hurry that the explosion was not quite successful from the trained viewpoint of the gunners.
  • People could have watched and seen these deserted buildings slowly fuse together, run together as molten metal runs together, like the lava from a volcano of long ago under the ponderous moving to and fro of some invisible, juggernautlike agency.