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Substantiivi

1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
2. (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.
3. (cellular automata) An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
4. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
5. (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
6. A kind of match for starting a fire:
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 match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Verbi

1. To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
2. (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.
3. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
4. (intransitive) To melt together.
5. (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.
6. (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
7. (intransitive, electricity, of a circuit) To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
8. (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.