Definitions
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- adjective joined together into a whole.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fuse . - adjective
Joined together byfusing . - adjective
Melted . - adjective Furnished with a
fuse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective joined together into a whole
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Examples
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In a former paper, in which we dwelt much on this subject, we mentioned that we had the report of a very scientific friend, who had spent nearly a life of leisure and competence in experiments on pictures, that the paint of the old masters _fused_, not only where white lead had been used, but in every part; and we ourselves saw him try the experiment upon the background of an old picture, by means of the blow-pipe, and the result was a fused substance -- a glass.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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a and b are fused to form experience c, we should treat ˜fused™ as referring to a process in which
The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006
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"Dymaxion" is a neologism fused from "dynamic," "maximum," and "tension;" Fuller applied it to several of his quixotic projects: the car, the house, the map of the world.
Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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"Dymaxion" is a neologism fused from "dynamic," "maximum," and "tension;" Fuller applied it to several of his quixotic projects: the car, the house, the map of the world.
Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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The word fused several circuits in his brain for a few seconds.
Sharp Edges Jayne Ann Krentz 1998
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She specialized in fused glass for 25 years in Alaska and Hawaii before coming to Ajijic.
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She specialized in fused glass for 25 years in Alaska and Hawaii before coming to Ajijic.
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In his work on human rights, Cassin fused his legal knowledge, his humanitarian instinct, and his belief in internationalism.
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I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go.
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I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go.
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