▸ noun: A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb. ▸ noun: (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator. ▸ noun: (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper. ▸ noun: A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind. ▸ noun: A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip. ▸ verb: To furnish with or install a fuse to (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above). ▸ noun: (electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. ▸ verb: (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt. ▸ verb: (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To melt together. ▸ verb: (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent. ▸ verb: (transitive, electricity, of a circuit) To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating. ▸ verb: (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
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