dissolve vs fuse

dissolve

verb
  • To liquify, melt into a fluid. 

  • To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate. 

  • To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding. 

  • To be disintegrated by such immersion. 

  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons. 

  • To resolve itself as by dissolution. 

  • To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas. 

  • To destroy, make disappear. 

  • To be melted, changed into a fluid. 

  • To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in. 

  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. 

  • To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release. 

noun
  • a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next 

fuse

verb
  • To liquify by heat; melt. 

  • To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating. 

  • To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent. 

  • 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 

  • To furnish with or install a fuse to (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above). 

  • To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. 

  • To melt together. 

noun
  • A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. 

  • The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator. 

  • A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind. 

  • 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. 

  • A tendency to lose one's temper. 

  • A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip. 

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