Sam Shepard

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

American Playwright

Jerry Yang

Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

American Businessman

Frances O'Grady

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

British Activist

Vanessa Mae

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

Chinese Musician

Luis Alberto Urrea

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

Mexican Poet

Terry Francona

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

American Coach

Elvis Costello

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

British Musician

Alicia Keys

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

American Musician

Frank Bruno

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

British Athlete

Jennifer Grey

I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

American Actress

Use 'fuse' to describe combining things to make them inseparable

Creating Unity

'Fuse' can be used metaphorically to mean unite ideas or qualities.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'fuse' when heat changes substances into a new form.

Intense Transformation

'Fuse' often refers to a permanent physical change caused by heat.

Physical Process

'Fuse' is used in an electrical context to describe a device that prevents damage.

Safety Function

In electronics, 'fuse' stops current flow when it gets too high.

Breaks Circuit

'Fuse' in a colloquial sense means losing temper suddenly.

Emotional Burst

This usage of 'fuse' is informal and best used in casual conversations.

Informal Expression

The term 'fuse' in this context is a military term related to explosives.

Explosive Context

A 'fuse' can refer to the time you have before an explosion occurs.

Timing Reference

 about loggerhead sea turtles, because they've got fascinating life histories, haven't they? Yes, they do. Well, sea turtles, they have a really thick shell and the top part is called a carapace. So I've actually brought part of a skeleton here and we can see this is the top part of the shell part of it, and what's interesting is that the ribs are actually fused to the shell. So these are actually the ribs here and that makes them susceptible to anything that could encounter them. Evolutionary speaking, it's very, very nice it's a hard shell of armour and now with humans, things can be a little bit more difficult for them with these shells.

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 which then ran out of fuel, exploded, threw those elements back into the universe. They then re-collapsed into another generation of stars and planets. And on some of those planets, the oxygen, which had been created in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. So now the universe is chemically more complex.

The history of our world...

 And in these cavities, these micro-cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water. These are little wells. And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form. And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe

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 in the three minutes that followed the birth of our universe. Eventually, clusters of atoms accumulated and formed stars. Within these stars, nuclear reactions fused light elements, such as hydrogen and helium, to form heavier elements, such as carbon and oxygen.

The law of conservation...

 In the lepton and nuclear epics, the radiation era's last two stages, the protons and neutrons underwent a significant change. They fused and created nuclei. And in doing so, they created the first chemical element in the universe, helium.

Origins of the Universe...

 accept it in fuse with it and attach together whilst kind of protecting itself against the elements is something we're not entirely sure how it does yet, but new research could figure it out and make our implications for medicine in terms

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 an immigrant within various disciplines fusing unlikely worlds and cultures and this is it helped me to embrace dualities in my own life and in my work and many of the work I'll be sharing with today wouldn't be possible had I

My life as an outsider PIPE...

 are the things that are also the source of your strength. What's going to be the outcome today? Well, all of us know the dozen sorts of ticking time bombs going on in the modern world, time bombs that have fuses

Why societies collapse PIPE...

 Other proteins in cell membranes can help fuse two different bilayers. That can work to our benefit, like when a sperm fertilizes an egg, but also harm us, as it does when a virus enters a cell.