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| fuse | |
| 1. n. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. |  |
| 2. n. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | |
| 3. n. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit. | |
| 4. n. (figurative) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper. | |
| When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse. | |
| 5. n. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind. | |
| 6. n. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip. | |
| 7. v. To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To melt together. | |
| 9. v. To furnish with or install a fuse. | |
| 10. v. (organic chemistry) 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 | |
