Idioms

fuse with

fuse with (something)

1. To connect or bond two things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "fuse" and "with." She used a soldering gun to fuse the metal part to the pipe. A: "Wait, I can fuse topaz with a gnarled stick and create a weapon that shoots electricity? Cool!" B: "Yeah, each gem has different elemental properties in this game." Geez, years of rust have fused the hinge with the door frame.
2. To connect or bond with something else. Here, look at the X-ray—you need to get a cast so that this part of the bone fuses with that one. It's definitely not ideal to have vertebrae fuse with each other, no. You need to increase the heat if you want these two ingredients to fuse with each other.
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fuse something with something

to bond something together with something. You have to fuse the upper layer to the lower layer with heat. He used heat and pressure to fuse the patch with the soft rubber of the raft.
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fuse with something

to bond with something. The metal has fused with the glass coating on the tank. I didn't know that metal could fuse with glass.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in classic literature
His work was realism, though he had endeavored to fuse with it the fancies and beauties of imagination.
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Joe Homeowner gets tired of buying fuses twice a week, so he replaces the 20-amp fuse with a 30-amp fuse.
Insurance company rejects house with electrical fuse box
This prevents unqualified personnel from replacing an open fuse with an incorrect fuse.
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The skilled artist will blend the fuse with details applied to represent feathers, muscle tone, fish scales, or similar finish work.
Chapter 7 Fusing: joining ice to ice
A syncytium secretes at least two proteins that attract immune cells to fuse with it.
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At showtime, cousin Butch Grucci usually does the launching honors, lighting both the lift charge and the fuse with (you guessed it) a spark, from a spark-generating machine.
Paint the sky
* Replace with a new fuse with the same amperage rating as the old fuse.
Fuse protection
Now, two teams of physicists have for the first time found experimentally the rate at which alpha particles (helium nuclei) fuse with carbon-12 nuclei to produce oxygen-16.
Because of the extreme difficulty of duplicating on Earth the temperatures and pressures at which alpha particles fuse with carbon-12 and for a variety of technical reasons, researchers had to study the reverse reaction -- the decay of oxygen-16 into carbon-12 and an alpha particle - to deduce the appropriate reaction rate.
Helium fusion and the fate of massive stars
Fusion occurs readily in such places as the sun, stars and thermonuclear bombs, where high pressures and temperatures force hydrogen, deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen containing one proton and one neutron) or other nuclei to fuse with an accompanying release of energy, mostly in the form of fast-moving particles.
Colliding clusters hint at new fusion route
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