different between fusee vs fuser

English

Etymology 1

From French fusil. Doublet of fusil.

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. A light musket or firelock.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview 2002, p. 123:

     He had not been many days at the chateau, when he perceived, with surprize and consternation, that his steps were continually watched by two servants armed with fusees.

   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 75:

     Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful fusee, which cost him forty guineas, a pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.

Synonyms

• fusil

Translations

Etymology 2

From French fusée, ultimately from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
2. A large friction match.
   • 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), page 322:

     A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.

3. A fuse for an explosive.
4. (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
5. A fusil, or flintlock musket.

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. The track of a buck.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Etymology 4

fuse +? -ee.

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
   • 2002, Philosophical Topics, volume 30, issue 1, page 276:

     This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically (and so, psychologically) identical. Setting aside issues about intensional content, when these differ, such a fusion would clearly produce someone who is exactly like what either of the fusees would have been like had the fusion not occurred.

English

Etymology

From fuse +? -er.

Noun

fuser (plural fusers)

1. The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the medium.

Danish

Noun

fuser

1. dud; piece of fireworks that fails to explode

Declension

French

Verb

fuser

1. to melt or fuse
2. to gush or spurt
3. to ring out, sound out

Conjugation

Derived terms

• fusement

Further reading

• “fuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pfuscher (“bungler, botcher”), from Pfusch (“botch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fu??r]
• Hyphenation: fu?ser
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

fuser (plural fuserek or fuserok)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) bungler, botcher (a clumsy or incompetent worker)

   Synonym: kontár

2. (colloquial, derogatory, attributive usage) botched, bungled

   Synonyms: rossz, hitvány

Declension

or

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• fuser in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fuser m

1. indefinite plural of fus

Verb

fuser

1. present tense of fuse