Noun: fuse
Sample Sentences
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The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion. [1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:]
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When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
Nouns inflected like fuse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”). See: Italian Nouns '
fuso', French Nouns '
fusée', Latin Nouns '
fūsus'.
Verbs referencing "fuse"
Spanish Nouns
huso, Irish Nouns
fiús.