Word Finder - fuse

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A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.

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• fuze (US)

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The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

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• fuze

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A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

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Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

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When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.

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A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.

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A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Martha quickly explained, leaving Quinn's short fuse unlit.

The high temperature necessary to fuse cement clinker makes this process difficult to accomplish commercially, but it has many inherent merits and may be the process of the future, displacing the rotatory method.

They meant to light the fuse on his emotions and power by taking what he cared for most.

There is also a thermal fuse on the heating element chamber.

Kate Slater has also had a long history at fuse fm.

He'd blown every damn fuse in my head all night.

Chastellain was no mere annalist, but proposed to fuse and shape his vast material to his own conclusions, in accordance with his political experience.

In Sporodinia the branches give rise also to short branches, which meet and fuse their contents to form zygospores.

The germination of the macrospore consists in the repeated division of its nucleus to form two groups of four, one group at each end of the embryo-sac. One nucleus from each group, the polar nucleus, passes to the centre of the sac, where the two fuse to form the so-called definitive nucleus.

Life with the Yorkshiremen always carried menacing undertones and Everton were on a short fuse, fully wound up and all ready to go.

Light the tip of each firework at arm's length, using a safety firework lighter or fuse wick.

The addition of sharp points was a step in advance; but the method hardly became a quantitative one until the sharp points were replaced by a flame (fuse, gas, lamp), or by a liquid jet breaking into drops.

At small heights Exner (27) has employed captive balloons, provided with a burning fuse, and carrying a wire connected with an electroscope on the ground.

Even in the multinucleate oosphere of Albugo bliti the nuclei fuse in pairs; and in the oospheres of Sp/zaero plea, which may contain more than one nucleus, the egg nucleus is formed by the fusion of one only of these with the spermatozoid nucleus (Klebahn).

In other cases the two nuclei place themselves side by side, the nuclear membrane between them disappears, and the contents fuse togethernuclear thread with nuclear thread, and nucleolus with nucleolusso completely that the separate constituents of the nuclei are not visible.

The distal tarsalia likewise fuse together, and then on to the upper ends of the metatarsals; the tarsale centrale remains sometimes as a separate osseous nodule, buried in the inter-articular pad.

In relation to the view that the spermatia are sexual cells, or at least were primitively so, it must be pointed out that although the actual fusion of the spermatial nucleus with a female nucleus has not been observed, yet in a few cases the spermatia have been seen to fuse with a projecting portion (trichogyne) of the ascogonium, as in Collema and Physcia, and there is very strong circumstantial evidence that fertilization takes place (see later in section on development of ascocarp).

As a result, these particles essentially fuse together and adhere to the skin when the makeup is applied.

Not only was he miffed at Weller's attitude, but at the short length of his own fuse.

In rare cases the right and left preacetabular blades fuse with each other above the spinous processes.

These plates may fuse, and yet the somites to which they belong may remain distinct, and each have its pair of appendages well developed.

The furnaces are driven to a white heat in order to fuse the mixture and expel bubbles of gas and air.

In the development of the ascus we find two nuclei at the base which fuse together to form the single nucleus of the young ascus.

In some forms we find definite male and female sexual organs (Sphaerotheca, Pyronema, &c.), in others the antheridium is abortive or absent, but the ascogonium (oogonium) is still present and the female nuclei fuse in pairs (Lachnea stercorea, Humaria granulata, Ascobolus furfuraceus); while in other forms ascogonium and antheridium are both absent and fusion occurs between vegetative nuclei (Humaria rutilans, and probably the majority of other forms).

Before the teleutospore reaches maturity the nuclei fuse, and the uninucleate condition Q C then continues again until aeci dium formation.

The colored frit thus Formed was used as paint in a wet state, and also used to dissolve Ln glass or to fuse over a surface in glazing.

Gaps then appear in the apposed surfaces, usually at the isthmus; the entire protoplasts either pass out to melt into one another clear of the old walls, or partly pass out and fuse without complete detachment from the old walls.

The effort to fuse the masses of raw material into a well-proportioned whole is perhaps not quite successful; and Carlyle had not the full sympathy with Frederick which had given interest to the Cromwell.

Perkin; the method being to sulphonate anthraquinone, and then to convert the sulphonic acid into its sodium salt and fuse this with caustic soda.

Further, at an early stage of development the fibula is a complete and separate bone, while the three metatarsals, which subsequently fuse together to form the cannon-bone, are likewise separate.

The primordium of the neurochord (neural or medullary plate) referred to above becomes closed in from the surface by the overgrowth of surrounding epiblast, and its edges also bend up, meet, and finally fuse to form a tube, the medullary or neural tube.

The phosphide obtained by heating cupric phosphate, Cu 2 H 2 P 2 O 81 in hydrogen, when mixed with potassium and cuprous sulphides or levigated coke, constitutes " Abel's fuse," which is used as a primer.

The crystals of octahedral borax fuse more easily than those of the prismatic form and are less liable to split when heated, so that they are preferable for soldering or fluxing.

In the junipers the scales become fleshy as the seeds ripen, and the individual scales fuse together in the form of a berry.

As a class, the metallic bromides are solids at ordinary temperatures, which fuse readily and volatilize on heating.

More usually, by an infolding of the layer of cells in development, we get three layers under the lens; the front layer is the corneagen layer, and is separated by a membrane from the other two which, more or less, fuse and contain the nerve-end-cells (retinal layer).

The somites of the body, except in Pauropus, either fuse after early development and form double somites with two pairs of appendages (Julus, &c.), or present legless and leg-bearing somites alternating.

Yet some enlightened men strove to fuse the two nations together, and the native Irish, or that section which bordered on the settlements and suffered great oppression, offered 8000 marks to Edward I.

In most of the former the palatines fuse with the vomers, whilst they remain distinct, unless entirely lost, in the latter.

A fuse is a safety device to stop overheating in faulty appliances.

At the first division, the maternal and paternal chromosomes fuse together to form a bivalent, during which crossing-over occurs.

He introduced a number of innovations, including steel borers, safety hats, safety fuse, and iron winding ropes.

The older fuse wire are being replaced gradually by their modern equivalent, the MCB or miniature circuit breaker.

Zum fuse the passion of tango with the fiery brilliance of gypsy violin playing.

Liz tells Larry that she has claustrophobia so Larry agrees to blow the fuse controlling the shield.

The high temperatures generated fuse the ore particles and fluxes together to form a porous clinker called sinter.

They take disco, dub, funk and jazz - and fuse the lot into a heady cocktail of nightclub magic.

These cloisons were then filled with colored enamel which was fired to fuse the enamel to the metal.

Hand Grenades Grenades in 1914 were exploded wither by percussion or by igniting a fuse.

Do not replace a cartridge fuse with fuse wire.