fuseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

名詞

fuse (複数形 fuses)

1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
   • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:

     The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.

   Synonym: fuze (米国用法)

3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze

5. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
6. (figuratively) A tendency to lose one's temper.

   When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.

7. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
8. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

使用する際の注意点

Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

派生語

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire
• short fuse

語源 2

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).

動詞

fuse (三人称単数 現在形 fuses, 現在分詞 fusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fused)

2. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
   • 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:

     Actually the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Rutland Railroads already are doing so; if they are fused, they would have a combined route mileage of 5,269 and assets totalling £318 million, [...].

3. (intransitive) To melt together.
4. To furnish with or install a fuse.
5. (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings

同意語

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

アナグラム

• feus