Meaning

8 senses
  1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.

    equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse

  2. (transitive)To liquify by heat; melt.

  3. (transitive)To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.

    sensations and ideas fusing intimately together

    mix together different elements

  4. (intransitive)To melt together.

    verschmelzen, verschmelzen

    сплавля́тьsplavljátʹ, сплавля́тьсяsplavljátʹsja, слива́тьсяslivátʹsja

  5. (ergative)To combine through nuclear fusion.

  6. (transitive)To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.

    absichern

    предохранятьpredoxranjatʹ

  7. (intransitive)To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.

    When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.

  8. 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.

Examples

64 sentences
  1. I lit the fuse.

    Я запалив детонатор.

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  2. Tom certainly has a short fuse.

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  3. You need to replace the fuse?

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  4. I'm going to replace the fuse.

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  5. I can't find our box of fuses.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
transitive: to melt together:
intransitive: to melt together:
transitive: to furnish with a fuse:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
transitive: to melt together:
transitive: to furnish with a fuse:

Origin

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”). Back-formation from fus

From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

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Forms

fuses, fusing, fused, fused
Base formfuse · to fuse
3rd person singularfuses
Present participlefusing
Past simplefused
Past participlefused

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfuse
he, she, itfuses

Past simpleLesson

all personsfused

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fused
he, she, ithas fused

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fuse

Synonyms

11 synonyms
melt together:meldsmelt
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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