fuse

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  1. noun A cord of readily combustible material that is lighted at one end to carry a flame along its length to detonate an explosive at the other end.
  2. noun A mechanical or electrical mechanism used to detonate an explosive charge or device such as a bomb or grenade: "A mechanical . . . switch is used to initiate the fuzes” (International Defense Review).
  3. transitive verb To equip with a mechanical or electrical fuse: "The bomb . . . was fuzed and timed to explode after the aircraft had taken off” (Aviation Week & Space Technology).
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  • He did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • An igniter and delay mechanism or a fuse is inserted through a hole in the pipe body or one of the end caps. —  21-ImprovisedExplosiveDevices
  • It felt like a fuse was burning and the storm was set to explode. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
  • He would die horribly, his body burned and scorched, his powerful muscles, his keen brain wiped out as a fuse is wiped out Doc's lips were set firmly. —  059 - The Living Fire Menace
  • Throw out everything on TV tonight, because the Generalissimo strapping dynamite to a kid's head and then lighting the fuse was the funniest joke in the history of comedy. is on a crazy wavelength all it's own this season and it's become my must-see show for the night. —  Scott's Blog of Doom
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detonator ·  wire ·  cartridge ·  switch ·  propellant ·  ignition ·  explosive ·  battery ·  bomb ·  grenade ·  fuze ·  primer

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fuse:   fuses ·  fusing ·  fused
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. From Italian fuso, spindle (originally from its shape), from Latin fūsus.
  2. Latin fundere, fūs-, to melt; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fūsus, past participle of fundere, pour out, shed; of metals, melt, cast, found: see found, and cf. fuse, affuse, confuse, diffuse, effuse, infuse, profuse, suffuse, transfuse, etc.
  2. Abbr. at fusee.
  3. Cf. feute.
 

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