fuse
part of speech
noun (a fuse, fuses); verb (fuse, fuses, fused, fusing)
meaning for a pupil
1) noun: A fuse is a small safety part in an electric plug or circuit with a thin wire that melts and breaks the circuit if too much current flows. tree →
2) noun: A fuse is a string or cord that you light to set off a firework or explosive. tree →
3) verb: To fuse means to join or melt together into one. tree →
4) verb (UK): If a light or machine fuses, it stops working because its fuse has melted. tree →
5) In old country speech, to fuse someone can mean to refuse them, to say no to them. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons: fuses protect circuits and stop fires. In safety: never replace a fuse with wire or foil. In stories: a fuse burns down before a bang. Phrases: blow a fuse, a short fuse (gets angry quickly), fuse box, fuse together, light the fuse.
examples
- The fuse blew and all the lights went out. tree →
- Dad checked the fuse box with a torch. tree →
- A fuse stops a wire getting too hot. tree →
- The pirate lit the fuse of the cannon. tree →
- The bones in a baby's skull fuse as it grows. tree →
- Heat fused the glass pieces together. tree →
- My brother has a short fuse and gets cross fast. tree →
note
Countable noun. "Blow a fuse" can mean a fuse melts, or (informal) someone gets very angry. American spelling sometimes fuze for explosive fuses. In science: a 3-amp fuse melts if more than about 3 amps flow.
In the corpora
- Stars spend about 90% of their lives steadily fusing hydrogen into helium, a stage astronomers call the main sequence.
- Every home has safety devices in its fuse box.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fuse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.