fuse
/fjuːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.62 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
noun
A tendency to lose one's temper.
verb
Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
Example Sentences
- "The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion."
- "When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse."
- "Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)"
- "sensations and ideas fusing intimately together"
- "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: […]"
- "All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fuso, fusée, fūsus, *ǵʰewd-