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# fuse

«fuse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small safety part in an electric plug or circuit with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#m1)

2) noun: A fuse is a string or cord that you light to set off a firework or explosive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#m2)

3) verb: To fuse means to join or melt together into one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#m3)

4) verb (UK): If a light or machine fuses, it stops working because its fuse has melted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#m4)

5) In old country speech, to fuse someone can mean to refuse them, to say no to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x1)
- Dad checked the fuse box with a torch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x2)
- A fuse stops a wire getting too hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x3)
- The pirate lit the fuse of the cannon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x4)
- The bones in a baby's skull fuse as it grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x5)
- Heat fused the glass pieces together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x6)
- My brother has a short fuse and gets cross fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/9/)
- [Every home has safety devices in its fuse box.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fuse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.