Synonyms
Examples for "fuse"
Examples for "fuse"
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She had a short fuse as far as her family was concerned.
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The fact that his fuse was so short was a good sign.
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The best fuse that Gersdorff could come up with lasted ten minutes.
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Remember this: Cormac's fuse is considerably shorter these days, Hannox warns me.
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Or even try doing without electricity for the want of a fuse.
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She said they wanted to put on some kind of citizens' primer.
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True 'Pac believers may well feel short-changed by Benny Boom's respectful primer.
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Then find Miss Betty and read her a page in the primer.
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Dab on a good primer to keep the fine glitter from creasing.
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Despite its importance, the mechanism of RNA-DNA primer synthesis remains poorly understood.
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Results: Results suggest that reduced negative priming is related to positive schizotypy.
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Neither group showed positive maternal responses following vaginocervical stimulation without steroid priming.
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In the morning the priming is taken out, and the lock uncocked.
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Are we priming our kids to overeat, even from a young age?
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Language disturbance in schizophrenia has been recently attributed to disturbed priming mechanisms.
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This is Six; she's making some fusee chain for Mr Fanshaw.
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He said nothing, but consulted his watch by the aid of a fusee.
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You glow like a fusee whenever you see a young lady.
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The stranger popped open the plastic case and took out a long red fusee.
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The chief had a fusee, which he carried slung, in addition to his rifle.
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The fuzee having gone out, Captain Dunbar, who commanded the vessel, again went on board and set fire to it in the most gallant manner.
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The fuze on striking ignites the exploder and in turn the lyddite.
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Hitherto no certain or efficient time-fuze has been adopted for rifled howitzers.
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No reliable percussion or concussion-fuze has as yet been arranged for spherical shells.
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Some fifty years, however, elapsed before a satisfactory fuze was made.
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The grenade was held in the hand and the fuze lighted by a port-fire.
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It is a fuze that might, for all they know, lead to a powder-keg.
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Cutting-tool for opening the Bormann fuze, one in each box of shell and shrapnel.
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If the fuze had to be withdrawn, there was a fuze extractor for the job.
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There is no doubt such errors will often account for the supposed defects of the fuze.
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This tool gripped the fuze head tightly, and turning a screw slowly pulled out the fuze.
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For greater or less distances this fuze may be drawn, and any of the others substituted.
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Not until the late 1600's did the method of letting the powder blast ignite the fuze become general.
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An iron tube fuze was screwed into a small hole in the back or side of the weapon.
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The mortar did not use a wad, because a wad prevented the fuze of the shell from igniting.
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There was the little coil of pale hair which had been as the fuze to this great explosion.
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Here they set a screw, hung the explosive instrument upon it, lit the fuze, and "retired."