I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fuse box
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
short
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You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your child or teenager for the umpteenth time.
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Girls today sure have short fuses .
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Boro fans have such short fuses because they are genuinely worried, despite Venables' much-hyped arrival.
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She was standing there crammed full of enthusiasm and energy like a bomb on a short fuse .
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Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse .
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Wright has a short fuse , and without the goals going in his situation is worsening.
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I can tell you, he's got a very short fuse .
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We've got some short fuses , haven't we?
slow
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She'd assumed that Jan was the high-powered one and Tim the slow fuse but she was wrong.
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Batut, whose work predates radio remote control, triggered his shutter by the use of slow burning fuse .
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Anger on a slow fuse began to build.
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Some one at Templecombe knew where to get gunpowder, oil and a slow fuse .
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Benjamin followed, studying the coiled slow fuses , jars of oil and small barrels of gunpowder piled there.
■ NOUN
box
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The fire started in the fuse box of a house divided into bedsits in Hartington Road.
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Deleage sued Saab after a June 1992 fire that he claimed originated in a faulty fuse box .
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He conceded, however, that the company tightened a nut in the fuse box on Saab models after 1992.
■ VERB
blow
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Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once!
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Ken ran to Maurine and Hayes's house, and Hayes rushed into our basement and replaced a blown fuse .
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I've even known him switch on a light without blowing all the fuses .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have a short temper/fuse
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Girls today sure have short fuses.
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Mrs Popple had long been known to have a short temper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Be sure all safety measures have been taken before lighting the fuse .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But fuses had disadvantages, as well.
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Hot water is even more scarce and depends on the weather, or whether or not a fuse has blown.
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I've even known him switch on a light without blowing all the fuses.
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If there are no electric cables, you can replace the fuses without worry.
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Ken ran to Maurine and Hayes's house, and Hayes rushed into our basement and replaced a blown fuse .
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The process continues, like the flame of a firecracker fuse .
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Then, you would crimp the blasting cap on to the time fuse .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Getz was one of the first musicians to fuse jazz and Latin rhythms.
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King sought to fuse the civil rights movement with anti-war activists.
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Lead fuses at a fairly low temperature.
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The radio's wires had been fused by the heat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos.
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Connection is made in the mutual overlap where each is stretching equally, reciprocally transformed, in order to fuse desire.
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It's as if the lights have fused.
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Jody stands as if her spine were fused, as if she were for ever balancing a large porcelain vase on her head.
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So for a short while the two movements, Co-operation and trade unionism, had fused.
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So if all the deuterium fused it could generate substantial heat in the Earth.
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The grains then soften at their points of con-tact and fuse together, a process called sintering.
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The way of the glaciers allowed him to fuse traditional creationism with the insights of modern science.