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Definition: Fuse |
FuseNoun1. Electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded. 2. Any igniter by which an explosive charge is ignited. Verb1. Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"; "fuse the clutter of detail into a rich narrative"--A. Schlesinger. 2. Become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat; "The substances fused at a very high temperature". 3. Equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse. 4. Make liquid or plastic by heating; "The storm fused the electric mains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Note: Fuse \Fuse\, noun. [For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.]. (references) |
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Computing | FUSE A DEC software development environment for ULTRIX, offering an integrated toolkit for developing, testing, debugging and maintenance. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Building | A short plug in an electric panel box which opens (breaks) an electrical circuit when it becomes overloaded. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A switching device that, by the melting of one or more of its specially designed and proportioned components, opens the circuit in which it is inserted and breaks the current when this exceeds a given value for a sufficient time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A safety device consisting of a short length of relatively fine wire, mounted in a holder or contained in a cartridge and connected as part of an electrical circuit. If the circuit source current exceeds a predetermined value, the fuse wire melts (i.e. the fuse 'blows') breaking the circuit and preventing damage to the circuit protected by the fuse. (references) |
Mining | An igniting or explosive device in the form of a cord, consisting of a flexible fabric tube and a core of low explosive (safety fuse) or highexplosive (detonating cord). (references) |
Public Administration | Explosive material highly susceptible to concussion or heat, primarily used to cause an explosion(initial ignition). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Generally, to fuse is to combine two objects via the process of fusion. In electrical engineering a fuse or fuze (short for 'fusible link') is a device that has as its critical component a metal wire or strip that will melt when heated by a prescribed (design) current, opening the circuit of which it is a part, thereby protecting the circuit from an overcurrent condition.
Fuses are often characterized as "fast-blow" or "slow-blow," according to the time they take to respond to an overcurrent condition. Fast-blow fuses (sometimes marked 'F') open quickly when the rated current is reached. Ultrafast fuses (marked 'FF') are used to protect semiconductor devices that can tolerate only very short-lived overcurrents. Slow-blow fuses (often marked 'T') can tolerate a transient overcurrent condition, but will open if the overcurrent condition is sustained.
Fuses are often sold in standardised packages to make them easily interchangeable. Cartridge fuses are cylindrical and are made in standard lengths such as 20mm, 1" and 1.25". Low-power fuses have a glass body so that the fuse wire can be inspected. High-power fuses have a stronger ceramic body filled with sand.
Blade fuses, with a plastic body and two prongs that fit into sockets, are used in automobiles.
Old electrical consumer units (also called fuse boxes) were fitted with fuse wire that could be replaced from a supply of spare wire that was wound on a piece of cardboard. Modern consumer units contain magnetic circuit breakers instead of fuses. In optical fiber technology, to fuse two optical fibres is to join their endfaces by melting, i.e. , welding, the endfaces together.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C In explosives, a fuze (usually spelled with a 'z' in this context) is an ignition source for an explosive device. This can take many different forms, the simplest being a length of combustible material which burns from the free end down to a small opening in the casing, where it then ignites the material. More modern forms of fuze, also often called "detonators", include:
- a time fuze detonates after a set time (the simple length mentioned above falls into this category, but more modern ones use electronic timers)
- a contact detonator explodes on impact
- a proximity fuze causes a missile to explode when comes within a certain distance to the target, usually using radar or sonar
- a remote detonator uses wires or radio waves to cause the explosive to explode on command
- an altitude fuze causes a bomb to explode at a certain altitude (which may be either above sea level or above ground), usually either by radar much like a proximity fuze, or by means of a barometric altimeter
Fuse is also a music television network like MTV, formerly called MuchMusic USA until it was sold in early 2003. The format is still very similar to the original MuchMusic in Canada, based in Toronto. Like MTV, Fuse now has studios headquartered on Times Square in New York City.
See also: http://www.fuse.tv (formerly http://www.muchmusicusa.com)
FUSE is also an Acronym for Field Upgradeable Systems Environment, which is a Reconfigurable Computer operating system (RCOS) provides a consistent and easy to use high level interface to FPGA based Reconfigurable Computing products from, among other Nallatech, see http://www.nallatech.com Fuse is also an album by Colin James.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fuse."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
FUSE, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, is a space-based telescope, run by the Johns Hopkins University. FUSE was launched on a Delta II rocket on June 24, 1999, as a part of NASA's Origins project.FUSE looks at light in the far ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, between 90 to 120 nanometers, which is unobservable with other telescopes. It's primary mission is to characterize universal deuterium, in an effort to learn about the stellar processing times of the deuterium left over from the Big Bang.
FUSE is a lightweight operating system intended to act as a thin layer between common application systems, such as Java programs, and common small-system hardware. It was created to support development on Nallatech FPGA systems.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "FUSE."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physics, nuclear fusion (a thermonuclear reaction) is a process in which two nuclei join to form a larger nucleus, thereby giving off energy. Nuclear fusion is the energy source which causes stars to "shine", and hydrogen bombss to explode.Any two nuclei can be forced to fuse with enough energy. When lighter nuclei fuse, the resulting nucleon has too many neutrons to be stable, and the neutron is ejected with high energy. Most lighter nuclei will produce more energy than initially required to cause them to fuse, making the reaction exothermic and chain or transiently self-sustaining, and generating net power.
For the opposite case, heavy nuclei with too few neutrons are also unstable and lead to nuclear fission. Unlike fusion however, fission reactions require so little extra energy for very heavy nuclei that they occur spontaneously, all the time. This is not the case with fusion, where the lowest mass nucleon, hydrogen, still requires considerable energy to fuse.
The total energy contained in a nucleus, the so-called binding energy, is considerably greater than the energy that binds the electrons to the nucleus. Thus the energy released in most nuclear reactions is much larger than that for chemical reactions. For example, the ionization energy gained by adding an electron to hydrogen is 13.6 eV. Compare that to the energy being released in the D-T reaction shown below, which at 17 MeV is over 1,000,000 times greater.
Requirements for fusion
A substantial energy barrier opposes the fusion reaction. The long range Coulomb repulsion between the nuclei is offset by the stronger but short range attractive strong nuclear force. The problem becomes one of bringing the nuclei sufficiently close for the strong nuclear force to be strong enough that the Coulomb barrier can be passed through tunneling.
The magnitude of the repulsion of the nuclei depends on their total electrical charge, and thus the total number of protons they contain. The magnitude of strong force depends on the total number of nucleons, which means that larger nuclei have a greater strong force. The combination of these two factors results in the fusion threshold energy being lowest for heavy isotopes of hydrogen, which have only one proton keeping them apart, but several additional neutrons pulling them together.
The simplest way to provide such energies is to heat the nuclei. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of a substance, meaning that some of the atoms within will have higher energies, and some lower. For any particular temperature, a certain percentage of the nuclei will have enough energy to fuse.
The reaction cross section combines the effects of the potential barrier and thermal velocity distribution of the nuclei into an "effective area" for fusion collisions. The cross section forms an equation
where n is the density of nuclei, σ is the cross section, ν is the thermal velocity, and f is the frequency of fusion producing collisions.
Increasing any of these three quantities will increase the fusion-causing collision frequency, and thus the overall rate of fusion. The cross section is also itself a function of thermal energy in the nuclei. Cross section increases from virtually zero at room temperatures up to meaningful magnitudes at temperatures of 10 - 100 keV. At these temperatures, well above typical ionization energies, the fusion reactants exist in a plasma state.
For any given amount of fuel in a particular state, the rate of fusion in the fuel, f, is constant. Thus the measure of the actual net energy being released is a function of f (and in turn, the temperature), the number of particles in a particular area (its density), and the amount of time they remain together (the confinement time). This can be quantified by what is commonly called the fusion triple product, nTτ or pτ where p=nT.
Releasing useful energy from a fuel can thus take place at a low value of f. For instance, the conditions inside the sun are actually quite "poor", and the nuclei only undergo fusion once in every 1029 seconds. However, the fact that the sun contains 1059 nuclei means that the net reaction rate is actually quite high, and since the sun is around for billions of years, eventually the fuel is used up and the total energy released is huge.
On Earth, where fusion fuel is expensive and we have significantly less than a solar mass of available fuel, the rate of fusion must be considerably greater, and thus the temperatures much higher. The higher the temperature, the higher the pressure and the more difficult it is to confine the fuel plasma.
For any particular fuel there is a particular value of nTτ that will result in more energy being released than is required to heat the fuel to start the reaction, this is known as the Lawson Criterion. For the easiest reaction in D-T fuel, nTτ is about 1014 sec/cm³, a figure that has proven extremely difficult to achieve even after 50 years of trying.
The Lawson Criterion essentially defines a minimum lower bound where net power will be produced from the fusion reaction, often referred to as break even. Another important energy is the ignition point, where the heat generated in the reactions is enough to heat the fuel to fuse. This might sound like it would be the same number, but in fact it tends to be considerably higher because much of the energy generated will tend to "escape" any reasonably sized machine. This is not a concern in a star, where the particles will eventually react with other parts of the star, but in a Earth-bound machine keeping all of the energy in the system is much more difficult. A reactor does not have to reach the ignition point in order to be a useful power generator. However, ignition remains one of the main goals of most research systems.
Fusion reactions
(D is a shorthand notation for deuterium, 2H, and T is short for tritium, 3H)
Fusion powers the Sun and other stars, where the fuel is contained by the gravity of the fuel itself. In stars the size of the sun or smaller, the proton-proton chain predominates; in larger stars, the CNO cycle is the dominant reaction. Both of these cycles have considerably higher threshold temperatures than reactions being studied on Earth, and the corresponding reaction rates are therefore much lower.
For Earth-bound fusion reactors the primary concern is a low threshold energy. This implies a lower Lawson Criterion, and therefore less startup effort. Another concern is the production of neutrons, which are difficult to use and control. Reactions that release no neutrons are referred to as the aneutronic reactions and are of considerable interest, but those that release lower-energy neutrons are equally interesting.
Low threshold energy reactions:
D-T reaction (lowest threshold energy, ~50 keV)
D-D reaction (both reactions are equally likely to occur)
- D + T → He4 (3.5 MeV) + n (14.1 MeV)
T-T reaction
- D + D → T (1.01 MeV) + p (3.02 MeV)
- D + D → He3 (0.82 MeV) + n (2.45 MeV)
Other interesting reactions, mostly aneutronic:
- T + T -> He4 + 2 n (11.3 MeV)
He³ reactions
Li6 reactions
- He³ + He³-> He4 + 2 p
- D + He³ → He4 (3.6 MeV) + p (14.7 MeV)
- T + He³ → He4 (0.5 MeV) + n (1.9 MeV) + p (11.9 MeV) (51%)
- T + He³ → He4 (4.8 MeV) + D (9.5 MeV) (43%)
- T + He³ → He5 (2.4 MeV) + p (11.9 MeV) (6%)
Tritium "breeder" reactions used in "dry" fusion bombs and some proposed fusion reactors:
- p + Li6 → He4 (1.7 MeV) + He3 (2.3 MeV)
- D + Li6 → 2 He4 (22.4 MeV)
- He³ + Li6 → 2 He4 + p (16.9 MeV)
B11 reaction
- n + Li6 → T + He4
- n + Li7 → T + He4 + n
Note that many of the reactions form chains. For instance, a reactor fueled with T and He³ will create some D, which is then possible to use in the D + He³ reaction if the energies are "right". The two most studied aneutronic reactions are the T + He³ and D + Li6, the later forms the basis for thermonuclear bombs. However all of these, even the aneutronic ones, do not operate "cleanly" and a number of less interesting reactions will occur at the same time, some of those producing neutrons.
- p + B11 → 3 He4 (8.7 MeV)
Fuel confinement
Gravitational confinement All mass, and energy in general, creates a gravitational force. One way to hold the fuel together long enough to undergo fusion is to put enough of it in one place that the gravity created by the fuel is enough to hold it together, as in stars. Stars are self-regulating, the force holding the star out against its own gravity is the heat being generated by the fusion inside. Thus if the rate of fusion rises, the star expands and the rate slows. Some simple math can demonstrate that the mass of fuel needed to make a star using the D-D reaction is about the size of the Moon.
Inertial confinement The fuel can be explosively compressed with external photons or other particles. Of course with an explosive, this implies that the containment time will tend to be quite small. However if the compression is high enough this is of little concern, as the fuel will still undergo significant fusion. This is the process used in the hydrogen bomb, where a huge explosion, provided by a nuclear fission bomb, compresses a small cylinder of fusion fuel.
In a thermonuclear weapon the x-rays generated by a fission device "boils" a plastic foam, creating a shock wave that is focused onto a "trigger" cylinder containing a liquid D-T mix. Other forms of inertial confinement have been attempted for fusion power, including using large lasers focused on a small pellet of fuel, or using ions of the fuel itself accelerated into a central region as in the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor.
Magnetic confinement A plasma consists of charged particles which can then be confined with appropriate magnetic fields. A variety of magnetic fields can be used to confine and insulate a fusion plasma. However, the confined plasma interacts with different confining magnetic fields in ways that affect the heating and confinement efficiency of the system. The nature of the fusion reactor will also be profoundly affected by the particular magnetic configuration. There are only two basic magnetic structures which have been shown to confine plasmas of fusion interest: the magnetic mirror and the magnetic torus. However, each of these magnetic confinement systems has several variations. These confinement systems differ in practice by emphasizing particular principles of fusion science to improve plasma confinement or to simplify the technical requirements for producing the magnetic fields. Historically, the tokamak, a toroidal confinement concept, embodied a set of principles which was comparatively easy to implement in the laboratory. As a result, most of the scientific progress has been made with this concept.
Fusion as a power source
For many years, considerable theoretical and experimental effort has gone into tapping fusion power, initially for electricity generation and possibly as an extremely efficient spacecraft propulsion system. See fusion power for an extensive discussion.
See fusion power, timeline of nuclear fusion.
Major controlled fusion experiments
Tokamaks
- Joint European Torus JET
- ITER
Inertial containment
- NIF
- inertial electrostatic confinement
External links
- ITER
- FIRE
- FUSION FAQ
- European Fusion Development Agreement
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nuclear fusion."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FUSE | English | First-user actions | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FuseSynonyms: electrical fuse (n), fusee (n), fuze (n), fuzee (n), primer (n), priming (n), blend (v), coalesce (v), combine (v), commingle (v), conflate (v), flux (v), immix (v), meld (v), merge (v), mix (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cut-out (mining), detonating (public administration, engineering & technology). |
| Antonym: defuse (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy . |
Combination | Verb: combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry. |
Fuel | Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock. |
Junction | Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fuse |
| English words defined with "fuse": banger, blow, blow out, blow up, burn out ♦ cartridge fuse, coalesce, cracker ♦ detonating fuse, Detonating primer ♦ firecracker, Frit, Fuse hole, Fusing ♦ gynogenesis ♦ Marron ♦ plug fuse, pronucleus ♦ sacral vertebra, safety fuse, Scorify, slow match, Smift, Snoff, solder, Stink-fire lance, Sump fuse ♦ Tew, throw a fit, Time fuse, time-fuse ♦ Vitrite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fuse": blasting fuse ♦ capped fuse ♦ Ensign-Bickford master fuse lighter ♦ fuse auger, fuse cap, fuse cutter, fuse lighter, FUSE MAKER ♦ instantaneous fuse ♦ Primacord-Bickford fuse. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fuse": Interfuse. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hello, um, you might wanna send a maintenance man to that office across the way because the lights are off and they must be looking for a fuse box or something because them flashlights are keeping me awake (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Once I set this fuse, you'll lose all that weight (Ernest Goes to Jail; writing credit: Charlie Cohen) I'd rather die than fuse with you (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) Three clicks arms the 4 second fuse, another three disarms it. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) The fuse is out. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) | |
Lyrics | And though my fuse is burning slow (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) And the jukebox blows a fuse (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone (Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time); performing artist: Elton John) The fuse is lit and I'm about to go boom (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) With his Father's 9 and a broken fuse (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Columbo: Short Fuse (1972) The Fuse of Death (1914) Short Fuse (1990) | |
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 | Six-step sequence of the death of a cancer cell. A cancer cell has migrated through the holes of a matrix coated membrane from the top to the bottom, simulating natural migration of a invading cancer cell between, and sometimes through, the vascular endothelium. Notice the spikes or pseudopodia that are characteristic of an invading cancer cell (1). A buffy coat containing red blood cells, lymphocytes and macrophages is added to the bottom of the membrane. A group of macrophages identify the cancer cell as foreign matter and start to stick to the cancer cell, which still has its spikes (2). Macrophages begin to fuse with, and inject its toxins into, the cancer cell. The cell starts rounding up and loses its spikes (3). As the macrophage cell becomes smooth (4). The cancer cell appears lumpy in the last stage before it dies. These lumps are actually the macrophages fused within the cancer cell (5). The cancer cell then loses its morphology, shrinks up and dies (6). Photo magnification: 1: x12,000; 2: x4,000; 3: x8,000; 4: x26,000; 5: x56,000; 6: x14,000. Credit: Susan Arnold (photographer). |  | Radio Acoustic Ranging - igniting the bomb and timing fuse TNT bombs were sound source for RAR RAR work on OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Timing the fuse on a quart bomb during RAR operations TNT bombs were sound source for RAR RAR work on OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Delta II rocket roars into the sky with NASA's FUSE satellite. |
 | Prepare for launching aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), during strikes on North Korean targets, circa 19 October 1950. Note small bombs, with fuse extensions, on the planes' wings. Credit: NAVY. |  | At least I managed a longer fuse!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Black Bayou ditch in Bird's Point, New Madrid Fuse Plug Levee District. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Barn on a hummock in Bird's Point, New Madrid Fuse Plug Levee District. Elevation is artificially made so as to be above flood level. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A multiple spindle screw machine on 20mm fuse production in a plant that formerly made cash registers. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Shell loading. Weighing the propelling charges of smokeless powder before they are poured into shells at a large Midwest loading plant. This precise work is done mostly by women. Mechanical devices produced in the fuse division enable soldiers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Old fuse 1" by Per Hardestam Commentary: "A forgotten fuse." | "Don't blow a fuse!" by Marcus Buckner Commentary: "A busted fuse." |
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Health | The viral membranes fuse to the endosomal membranes, causing the release of viral RNP into the cytoplasm (uncoating). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fuse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.35% of the time. "Fuse" is used about 362 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.35% | 280 | 17,458 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.17% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.49% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 362 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fuse" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fuse | Last name | 130 | 63,977 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Bel Fuse Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "fuse": bickford fuse ♦ blow a fuse ♦ bomb fuse ♦ cartridge fuse ♦ Concussion fuse ♦ delayed action fuse ♦ detonating fuse ♦ electrical fuse ♦ electronic fuse ♦ fuse body ♦ fuse box ♦ fuse cap ♦ fuse composition ♦ Fuse hole ♦ Fuse plug ♦ fuse together ♦ have a short fuse ♦ light fuse ♦ percussion fuse ♦ plug fuse ♦ proximity fuse ♦ quick fuse ♦ safety fuse ♦ sump fuse ♦ time fuse. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fuse": fuse-boxes, fuse-cupboard, fuse-wire. | |
Ending with "fuse": re-fuse, sheet-fuse, short-fuse, time-fuse. | |
Containing "fuse": eu-fuse-ia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fuse | 1,556 | gould fuse | 28 |
fuse tv | 365 | car fuse | 28 |
fuse music | 133 | bottle chart european fuse milk | 26 |
buss fuse | 118 | visco fuse | 26 |
stereo fuse | 107 | fuse television | 25 |
circuit breakers and fuse | 89 | everything fuse lyrics stereo | 25 |
bussman fuse | 85 | fuse network | 25 |
cannon fuse | 68 | fuse much music | 25 |
fuse holder | 57 | fuse imx | 25 |
fuse uranium | 52 | electrical fuse | 25 |
channel fuse music | 52 | fuse unlimited | 23 |
fuse box | 41 | bussmann fuse | 23 |
channel fuse | 38 | electronic fuse | 23 |
thermal fuse | 34 | bel fuse | 23 |
firework fuse | 33 | dedicate fuse live | 22 |
little fuse | 33 | fuse net | 22 |
fuse block | 31 | fuse tv.com | 21 |
fuse music television | 31 | d fuse | 20 |
fuse music tv | 30 | industrial fuse | 19 |
power fuse | 29 | fuse shade | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fitil (fuze, slow match, Wick), vë kapsollë (fuze), vë fitil (fuze), siguresë (fuze, gag), shkrij (consolidate, defreeze, disband, fuze, liquate, melt, melt down, merge, smelt, thaw, thaw out, unite), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), kapsollë (detonator, fuze, percussion cap, primer), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld), bashkëshkrirje (fusion, smelting). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتيل (cord, fuze, primer, slow match, wick), لحم (accrete, flesh, fuze, graft, interfuse, meat, solder, weld), قاطع تيار (fuze), صمام كهربائي (fuze), صهر (allied, fuze, melt, melt down, smelt, smelting), ذاب (dissolve, flux, fuze, melt, render, solve, thaw), دمج (amalgamate, amalgamation, blend, combination, combine, conjunction, consolidate, dovetailing, embody, fuze, incorporation, integrate, integration, interlace, merge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смесвам (admix, agglomerate, alloy, amalgamate, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concrete, incorporate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, knead, lump, lump together, merge, mingle, mix, mix up), сливам (amalgamate, combine, contract, incorporate, melt, merge, run on, run together, slur), разтопявам (dissolve, melt, thaw), разтапям (liquate, melt), фитил (candlewick, lighter, match, portfire), топя (dissolve, found, melt, render, run, smelt, steep, thaw, try, unfreeze), възпламенител (fulminator, fuze), запалка (cigarette lighter, fuze, lighter, portfire, squib), бушон, поставям запалка (fuze), изгарям (blight, blow, blow out, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, consume, cremate, go phut, incinerate, parch, scorch), детонатор (exploder, fulminator, fusee, fuze, torpedo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鎔 (to smelt), 鑠 (bright, melt), 熔 (to smelt), 保险丝 (fuze), 保險絲 . (various references) | |
Czech | fúzovat (amalgamate, combine), zapalovaè (cigarette lighter, lighter), tavit (smelt down), slouèit (affiliate, bring together), rozpustit (break up, disband, dismiss, dissolve, melt, resolve, take down), pojistka (insurance, policy). (various references) | |
Danish | væge (wick). (various references) | |
Dutch | lont (wick), lampepit (wick), kousje (wick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | meĉo (wick). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjústráður (wick), veikur (faint, light, weak, wick). (various references) | |
Finnish | sytytin (lighter, primer). (various references) | |
French | fusible (fusible), fusée (fuze). (various references) | |
German | sicherung (backlup, backup, bak, belaying, fuze, protection, safe, safeguard, safeguarding, safety catch, securing), zünder (detonator, exploder, fuze, fuzeUS, igniter, trigger), vereinigen (ally, amalgamate, associate, bring together, capture, combine, coordinate, federate, fuze, get together, join, merge, pool, to ally, to amalgamate, to associate, to confederate, to fuse, to incorporate, to rejoin, unify, unite). (various references) | |
Greek | σύστημα εκπυρσοκρότησης, συγχωνεύω (amalgamate, blend, fuze, merge), συγχωνεύομαι (blend, fuze, merge), μέσο ανάφλεξης (detonating agent), φιτίλι (snuff, wich, wick), φυτήλι (fuze), φυτίλι (tinder), ασφάλεια ηλεκτρική (fuze), ασφάλεια τήξης (cut-out, safety cut-out), ασφάλεια (assurance, insurance, safeness, safety, safety catch, safety lock, secureness, security, surety), τηκτή ασφάλεια, τήκω (flux, fuze, liquefy, melt, thaw), τήκομαι (fuze, liquefy, melt, pine, sweal, thaw), θρυαλλίσ (fusse, fuze), διακόπτησ ασφάλειασ (fuze). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרעום, לאחד (ally, amalgamate, combine, consolidate, incorporate, join, reunite, unite), להתיך (dissolve, melt, melt down, smelt), לנתך, פיוז, נתיך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kanóc (candle-wick, fuze, match, slow match, tinder, wick), gyutacs (cartridge fuse, detonator, fuze, igniter, ignition device, ignition fuze, percussion cap, percussion fuse, primer), olvadóbiztosító (fuze), gyújtózsinór (firing-tape, fuze, portfire, safety fuse, safety fuze, tinder), biztosíték (assurance, avouch, bond, earnest, fuze, guarantee, guaranty, hock, hostage, palladium, pledge, retention money, safeguard, security, surety, warrant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggabungkan (bale, band, conquer, consolidate, integrate, unite), mencantum (bring together, close, pin), melebur (melt, merge, wipe out), gempel (adhere), berfusi (coalesce). (various references) | |
Italian | fusibile (fuseelettricita, fusible). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヒドロムシ類 (CHI, close call, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanist, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hut, hydrozoan, hypochondria, interview, listening comprehension, near miss, public hearing), 導火線 , 口火 (cause, origin, spark plug), 信管 , 可鎔片 , 可溶片 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヒューズ , しんかん (annexe, heart, Imperial letter, new book, new patient, new publication, shake, Shinto priest, silence, silent, still), くちび (cause, origin, spark plug), どうかせん, かようへん. (various references) | |
Korean | 신관 (fuze). (various references) | |
Manx | roie ry-cheilley (confluent, hang together), lheie (assimilation, blow, blow of fuse, blow out, blowing, digest, disappear, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, liquefaction, liquefy; digestion, melting, smelt, smelting, soften), lheian, fioose (valence, valency), cur fioose ayn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sikring, lunte. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fusível (fusible, fuze), mecha (candle-wick, match, tinder, wick). (various references) | |
Romanian | fitil (lighter, lint, match, squib, Wick), topi (consume, destroy, dissolve, flux, found, melt, melt down, render, ret, rot, smelt, thaw, wick), suda (blend, perspire, solder, weld), siguranţã (assurance, assuredness, certainty, cocksureness, confidence, light fuse, lock, reliability, resolution, retentiveness, safety, security, surety), se topi (blow out, flux, fuze, melt, smelt), se amesteca (commingle, concern, interblend, interfere, interfuse, intermeddle, intervene, intrude into, meddle, mingle, put in one's oar), se amalgama (amalgamate, fuze), pune fitil, lichefia (fuze, liquefy, melt), contopi (amalgamate, blend, fuze, merge, smelt). (various references) | |
Russian | снарядная труба (fuze), сплавляться (fuze), сплавлять (alloy, alloying, float, fuze), взрыватель (detonating fuse, exploder, fuze), запал (fuze, heaves, portfire, roaring, vent, venthole), бикфордов шнур (fuze), предохранитель (arrester, fuze, pawl, preventer, protector, safety catch, safety latch), перегорать (burn out, fuze), плавка (cast, fuze, melt, melting, smelt), плавкий предохранитель (fuze, safety fuse), плавиться (fuze, melt), плавить предохранитель (fuze), плавить (flux, fuze, liquate, melt, smelts). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fuzionisati, fitilj (primer, spunk, wick), upaljač (cigarette lighter, igniter, lighter, portfire, safety fuse), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), osigurač (safety, safety fuse), štapin. (various references) | |
Spanish | fusible (fusible, fuze, safeguard), espoleta (bomb fuse, fuze, wishbone). (various references) | |
Swedish | säkring (cutout, lock, plug fuse, safety catch). (various references) | |
Thai | ฟิวส์, รวมเข้าด้วยกัน (fuze). (various references) | |
Turkish | fitil (candlewick, cord, detonator, flute, fuze, piping, portfire, rib, Seton, suppository, Wick), fünye (fuze, portfire), yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, burn out, fire, fuze, glow, go on, inflame, kindle, light, light up, scorch, smart, sting, swelter, take, tan, toast), tapa koymak, tapa (fuze, spile, spill, stopper, stopple), sigorta (assurance, fuze, insurabile, insurance), kaynaştırmak (combine, commingle, conglutinate, integrate), kaynaşmak (blend, coalesce, commingle, knit, knit up, merge, mill about, mix, seethe, socialize, unite), eritmek (dissolve, fuze, make a dent in, melt, reduce, render, smelt, thaw, unfreeze, whittle away, whittle off), erimek (deliquesce, dissolve, melt, pine, pine away, run, thaw), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void). (various references) | |
Turkmen | partladyjy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сплавляти (alloy, conflate, float), запал (eagerness, fervor, fervour, fusee, fuze, ignition, lighter, mettle, passion, primer, squib, zeal, zest), плавка (melting, smelt, smelting), плавитися (liquate), плавити (liquate, melt, melt down, smelt), детонатор (detonator, exploder, fuze). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kíp, cầu chì ngòi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fuse": fused, fusee, fusees, fusel, fuselage, fuselages, fuseless, fusels, fuses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fuse": circumfuse, confuse, defuse, diffuse, effuse, infuse, interdiffuse, interfuse, perfuse, profuse, refuse, reinfuse, suffuse, transfuse, unconfuse. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fuse": circumfused, circumfuses, confused, confusedly, confusedness, confusednesses, confuses, defused, defuses, diffused, diffusely, diffuseness, diffusenesses, diffuser, diffusers, diffuses, doofuses, effused, effuses, infused, infuser, infusers, infuses, interdiffused, interdiffuses, interfused, interfuses, perfused, perfuses, profusely, profuseness, profusenesses, refused, refusenik, refuseniks, refuser, refusers, refuses, reinfused, reinfuses, suffused, suffuses, transfused, transfuses, unconfused, unconfuses, unfused. (additional references) | |
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"Fuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fase, fasi, fasu, fause, Fauske, Fbsi, fdsa, fese, Fesik, fesse, Fessey, feuse, fise, fisi, Fisse, Fisseha, Fiuza, flusa, flusey, Flusse, fnsea, foase, foose, fose, Fosi, fouse, fowse, fruse, fsa, fso, fsu, fube, fuc, fuca, fucawi, fuce, fuckee, fude, fudee, fue, fuev, fuge, fuhe, fuhs, fuise, Fuisse, fuje, fuke, fune, fuose, fure, furse, fus, fusa, fusen, fush, Fushe, fusk, fusr, fusse, Fussey, fust, fuste, fusy, fute, fuve, Fuxe, fuys, fuz, fuzak, fuzey, fuzie, juse, Nfsu, quse, tuse, ufe, ufs, veuse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fuse" (pronounced fyuw"z) |
| 4 | f y uw" z | confuse, defuse, diffuse, infuse, refuse, suffuse, transfuse. |
| 3 | -y uw" z | abuse, accuse, amuse, bemuse, cues, disabuse, ewes, excuse, Hews, hues, miscues, misuse, muse, overuse, pews, queues, recuse, reuse, reviews, revues, skews, spews, use, views. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: feus. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-s-u" | |
-1 letter: efs, feu, sue, use. | |
-2 letters: ef, es, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-s-u" | |
+1 letter: fetus, feuds, flues, fuels, fumes, fused, fusee, fusel, fuses, fuzes. | |
+2 letters: defuse, effuse, fauces, fauves, femurs, fescue, feuars, fiques, flukes, flumes, flutes, fluxes, foetus, fucose, fudges, fugles, fugues, fumers, fumets, funest, furies, furzes, fusees, fusels, fusile, fussed, fusser, fusses, futzes, fuzees, fuzzes, infuse, refuse, ruffes, suffer, surfed, surfer, unsafe, useful. | |
+3 letters: befouls, begulfs, bouffes, buffers, buffets, confuse, curfews, defocus, defunds, defused, defuses, defuzes, diffuse, duffels, duffers, duffles, earfuls, easeful, effused, effuses, engulfs, eyefuls, faucets, favuses, ferrous, ferrums, ferulas, ferules, fescues, fetuses, feudist, ficuses, figures, fissure, fixures, flushed, flusher, flushes, fluster, fluters, focused, focuser, focuses, fondues, foulest, frenums, friseur, fubsier, fucoses, fucuses, fuddles, fuelers, fuhrers, fullers, fullest, fulness, fulsome, fumbles, fumiest, fungoes, funkers, funnels, funnest, funnies, furanes, furlers, furless, furores, fusible, fussers, fussier, fustier, futures, huswife, infused, infuser, infuses, jestful, muffles, museful, ourself, perfuse, pouffes, profuse, puffers, purfles, rebuffs, refocus, refuels, refuges, refunds, refusal, refused, refuser, refuses, refutes, restful, restuff, ruffles, scuffed, scuffle, shuffle, sluffed, snafued, snuffed, snuffer, snuffle, souffle, stuffed, stuffer, stupefy, subfile, suffers, suffice, suffuse, sulfate, sulfide, sulfite, sulfone, surface, surfeit, surfers, surfier, synfuel, truffes, tuffets, tufters, unfixes, unfrees, unfused, unifies, zestful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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