Fuse

(noun.) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.

(noun.) an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.

(verb.) make liquid or plastic by heating; 'The storm fused the electric mains'.

(verb.) become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat; 'The substances fused at a very high temperature'.

(verb.) equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse.

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• This fuse was superseded by one invented by General Bormann of Belgium, which greatly added to the value of case shot. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A fuse is made by combining a number of metals in such a way that the resulting substance has a low melting point and a high electrical resistance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• So great is the heat developed that the metals melt and fuse, and on cooling show perfect union. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It then consisted of a comparatively thin shell filled with bullets, having a fuse lit by the firing of the gun, and adapted to explode the shell in front of the object fired at. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Until recently, dynamiting was attended with serious danger, owing to the fact that the person who applied the torch to the fuse could not make a safe retreat before the explosion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The danger of overloading may be eliminated by inserting in the circuit a fuse or other safety device. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• All metallic sodium and potassium are now obtained by electrolysis of fused hydroxides or chlorides (Pats. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1892 it was discovered that lime and coal fused together in the intense heat of the electric furnace formed a crystalline, metallic-looking substance called calcium carbide. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It blushed so ruddily and vividly, that the hues of the walls and the variegated tints of the dresses seemed all fused in one warm glow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Metals are fused and welded by the use of the electric current. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• These matches were fuses of some slow-burning fiber, like tow, which would keep a spark for a considerable time. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No special tool is required for setting these fuses. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The time fuses all contain a percussion element to insure their exploding on impact if not previously exploded. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The insight directly gained fuses with what is told. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• One comprehensive party platform fusing every interest is impossible and undesirable. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The arc of flame passed from the top of one carbon to the other, fusing the separating layer of kaolin, and the whole burned down together as a candle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This fusing of one god with another is called _theocrasia_, and nowhere was it more vigorously going on than in Alexandria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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