different between fuse vs pass

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo?oz, IPA^(key): /fju?z/
• Hyphenation: fuse
• Rhymes: -u?z

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)

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

   Synonym: fuze (US)

3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze

5. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
6. (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

7. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
8. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Usage notes

Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

Derived terms

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire
• short fuse

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).

Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

2. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
3. (intransitive) To melt together.
4. To furnish with or install a fuse.
5. (organic chemistry) 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

Synonyms

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

Translations

Anagrams

• feus

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fusent, fuses

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
5. second-person singular imperative of fuser

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

fuse

1. feminine plural of fuso

Noun

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

Participle

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Latin

Participle

f?se

1. vocative masculine singular of f?sus

Adverb

f?s? (comparative f?sius, superlative f?sissim?)

1. widely, extensively
2. in great detail
3. loosely, roughly

References

• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• fusa (verb) (a infinitive)

Verb

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fus)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural
2. neuter of fusen

References

• “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fu.se]

Etymology 1

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

Synonyms

• fu (informal)

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse n

1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetian

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
3. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s/
  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): [p???s]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [p?ä?s], [p???s]
  • (Boston) IPA^(key): [p?a?s]
• IPA^(key): /pæs/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): [p?æs], [p???s], [p?e?s]
  • (Ireland, Northern England) IPA^(key): [p?as], [p?æs]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): [p?äs]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [p?e??s]
• Rhymes: -æs, -??s
• Hyphenation: pass

Etymology 1

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from *Vulgar Latin pass?re (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pth?noh?, from Proto-Indo-European *peth?- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.

Alternative forms

• passe (obsolete)

Verb

pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

1. To change place.
   1. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.

      Synonyms: go, move

   2. (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.

      Synonyms: overtake, pass by, pass over
   3. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.

      Synonyms: deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit

      • I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
   4. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

      Synonyms: evacuate, void

   5. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
   6. (sports) to make a movement
      1. (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
         • 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth

           Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

      2. (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
      3. (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.

         Synonym: thrust

      4. (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.

   7. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
   8. (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.

      Synonyms: circulate, pass around

   9. (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

      Synonyms: admit, let in, let past

   10. (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.

2. To change in state or status
   1. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.

   2. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

      • Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

      • 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:

        The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.

   3. (intransitive) To die.

      Synonyms: pass away, pass on, pass over; see also Thesaurus:die

   4. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.

   5. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).

      Synonyms: be accepted by, be passed by
   6. (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

   7. (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.

      Synonyms: approve, enact, ratify
   8. (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

        And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.

   9. (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

      Synonyms: pronounce, say, speak, utter

      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

        Father, thy word is passed.

   10. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
3. To move through time.
   1. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.

      Synonyms: elapse, go by; see also Thesaurus:elapse

   2. (transitive, of time) To spend.
      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

        To pass commodiously this life.
   3. (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

      Synonyms: disregard, ignore, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore

      • I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

   4. (intransitive) To continue.

      Synonyms: continue, go on

   5. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

   6. (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

      Synonyms: bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
   7. (intransitive) To happen.

      Synonyms: happen, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen

      • 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:

        […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.

4. To be accepted.
   1. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

   2. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging fully, without qualifier); especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was assigned male or vice versa.
5. To refrain from doing something.
   1. (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.

      Coordinate terms: pass on, pass up

   2. (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.

   3. (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
   4. (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
6. To do or be better.
   1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

      Synonyms: exceed, surpass

   2. (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

      Synonyms: better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend; see also Thesaurus:exceed
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.

   Synonyms: take heed, take notice; see also Thesaurus:pay attention

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

Noun

pass (plural passes)

1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.

   Synonyms: gap, notch
2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.

3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
   • 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:

     [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]

4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.

   Synonym: transit

5. An attempt.

6. Success in an examination or similar test.

7. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

   Synonym: thrust

8. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
9. A sexual advance.

10. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
11. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.

    Antonym: meet

12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
    • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law

      A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

    Synonyms: access, admission, entry

13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission

14. (baseball) An intentional walk.

15. (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.

16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
    • Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...

    Synonyms: condition, predicament, state

17. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
18. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
19. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
20. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

21. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Short for password.

Noun

pass (plural passes)

1. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
   • 1999, "Jonny Durango", IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!! (on newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious)

     If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

Translations

Further reading

• pass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pass at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• APSS, ASPs, PSAS, PSAs, SAPs, asps, saps, spas

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?as?]

Noun

pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)

1. passport

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Verb

pass

1. singular imperative of passen

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin passus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pas]

Noun

pass ?

1. step
2. mountain pass

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa or passene)

1. a passport (travel document)
2. a pass (fjellpass - mountain pass)

Derived terms

• barnepass (from the verb passe)
• fjellpass
• passbilde
• passfoto

Verb

pass

1. imperative of passe

References

• “pass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)

1. a passport (travel document)
2. a pass, mountain pass

Derived terms

• barnepass (from the verb passe)
• fjellpass
• passbilde, passbilete
• passfoto

References

• “pass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German, originally from Italian passo

Noun

pass n

1. passport (document granting permission to pass)
2. place which you (must) pass or is passing; mountain pass
3. pace; a kind of gait
4. place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
5. spell (a period of duty); shift
6. leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)

Declension

Synonyms

• genomfart, överfart, passage

• leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass

Derived terms

• passa
• passlig
• till pass

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pass c

1. (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team

Declension

Synonyms

• passning

Derived terms

Anagrams

• asps