Definition of fuses:
(n) :
(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.
(n) :
(manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
(n) :
A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
(v) :
(transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.
(v) :
(transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
(v) :
(intransitive) To melt together.