fuse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 fyo͞oz

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
    — The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
  2. A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
  3. An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
  4. Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device. alt-of,alternative,proscribed,sometimes
  5. A tendency to lose one's temper. figuratively
    — When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
  6. A kind of match for starting a fire:; A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
  7. A kind of match for starting a fire:; A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
动词 v.
  1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
  2. To liquify by heat; melt. transitive
    — Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)
  3. Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator. alt-of,alternative,proscribed,sometimes
  4. To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. transitive
    — That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
  5. To melt together. intransitive
  6. To combine through nuclear fusion. ergative
  7. To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent. transitive
  8. To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing. intransitive
    — When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
  9. 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.

词形变化

fuses plural fuses present,singular,third-person fusing participle,present fused participle,past fused past fuses plural fuses present,singular,third-person fusing participle,present fused participle,past fused past

词汇关系

衍生词
Bickford fuse concussion fuse defuse fuse box fuse plug hobby fuse long fuse multifuse percussion fuse polyfuse proximity fuse resettable fuse safety fuse short fuse time fuse fuselike re-fuse autofuse circumfuse electrofuse fusogen fusome fusor interfuse refuse unfuse

词源

词源 1
From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
词源 2
Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
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