fuse

Definition:
1. A small wire or device inside a piece of electrical equipment that breaks and stops the current if the flow of electricity is too strong.
2. Electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.
3. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.
4. Mix together different elements.
5. Become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat.

Use 'fuse' in a sentence:

• 1. Hopes for an early cut in German interest rates lit the market's fuse early on.
• 2. The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
• 3. Changing a fuse is one of those fiddly jobs I hate.
• 4. We are instructing owners to keep the bomb in a locked cabinet and the fuse separately in a drawer.
• 5. I have a very short fuse and a violent temper.
• 6. I paid £ 80 to have my car radio fixed and I bet all they did was change a fuse.
• 7. Use a 3 amp fuse for equipment up to 720 watts.
• 8. Charles lit the fuses and they ran for cover.
• 9. These multivesicular bodies eventually fuse with the lysosome.
• 10. The richness of Oshima's work lies in its ability to fuse alienation with involvement.
• 11. A bomb was deactivated at the last moment, after the fuse had been lit.
• 12. I paid $80 to have my car radio fixed and I bet all they did was change a fuse.
• 13. The images fuse together and transform into other images in a rhythmic frenzy, as if they were moving oil paintings.
• 14. FUSE is an incredible technology.
• 15. Those who want to ban the bomb for American citizens claim that if you have one locked in the cabinet, with the fuse in a drawer, you would never be able to assemble it in time to stop an intruder.
• 16. Did you try the fuse box?
• 17. So that's it—the fuse had gone.
• 18. Don't try this unless you have plenty of disks and a big fuse!
• 19. As they heal, the bones will fuse together.
• 20. Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium.
• 21. What they have done is fuse two different types of entertainment, the circus and the rock concert.
• 22. The flakes seem to fuse together and produce ice crystals.
• 23. For all my experience, I blew a fuse in the quarter-final and could have been sent off.
• 24. The bombs inside were on a one-hour fuse.
• 25. He has a short fuse, and they poke and prod to see if he will explode.
• 26. The fuse blew as he pressed the button.
• 27. Past and present fuse.
• 28. Rainwater had fused the bulbs.
• 29. The wire snapped at the wall plug and the light fused.
• 30. The wire snapped at the wall plug with a blue flash and the light fused.
• 31. Atoms of hydrogen are fused to make helium.
• 32. Traditional implementation of these concerns requires you to fuse their implementation with the core concern of a module.
• 33. You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your teenager.
• 34. The fuse blew as he pressed the button to start the motor.
• 35. Manufactured glass is made by fusing various types of sand.
• 36. Brass can be made by fusing copper and zinc.
• 37. Their solution was to isolate specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.
• 38. If the conditions are right, they will combine, fuse and form darmstadtium plus neutron.
• 39. Is this plug fused?
• 40. Our different ideas fused into a plan.
• 41. The two companies have been fused into a single organization.
• 42. Check whether a fuse has blown.
• 43. He set the fuse to three minutes.
• 44. Cartridge fuse is a fuse cased in a tube.
• 45. Remove the circuit fuse before beginning electrical work.
• 46. His music of that period fused the rhythms of Jazz with classical forms.
• 47. His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms.
• 48. The sperm fuses with the egg to begin the process of fertilization.