different between melt vs fuser

English

Etymology

From Middle English melten, from Old English meltan (“to consume by fire, melt, burn up; dissolve, digest”) and Old English mieltan (“to melt; digest; refine, purge; exhaust”), from Proto-Germanic *meltan? (“to dissolve, melt”) and Proto-Germanic *maltijan? (“to dissolve, melt”), both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to melt, digest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

melt (countable and uncountable, plural melts)

1. Molten material, the product of melting.
2. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
3. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
4. A melt sandwich.
5. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
6. (Britain, slang, derogatory) An idiot.

Derived terms

• snowmelt, snow melt

Translations

Verb

melt (third-person singular simple present melts, present participle melting, simple past melted or (rare) molt, past participle melted or molten)

1. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

   I melted butter to make a cake.

   When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

   His troubles melted away.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
   • 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day

     For pity melts the mind to love.

4. (intransitive) To be discouraged.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be emotionally softened or touched.

   She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.

6. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Synonyms

• (change from solid to liquid): to found, to thaw

Derived terms

Translations

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

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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