Reject vs Fuse - What's the difference?
reject | fuse |
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
(also'' fuze ''in US ) A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
(industry, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.
Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
To melt together.
To furnish with or install a fuse.
As verbs the difference between reject and fuse
is that reject is to refuse to accept while fuse is .As a noun reject
is something that is rejected.reject
English
(wikipedia reject)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, denyAntonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take upSynonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alienfuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fuso and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.