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Fused vs Melt - What's the difference?

fused | melt |

As verbs the difference between fused and melt

is that fused is (fuse) while melt is to be proper.

As an adjective fused

is joined together by fusing.

fused

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fuse)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Joined together by fusing.
  • Melted.
  • Furnished with a fuse.

    • Derived terms

    * fused deposition modelling * fused grid * fused kidney * fused multiply-add * fused sentence

    Anagrams

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    melt

    English

    Noun

  • Molten material, the product of melting .
  • The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
  • The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
  • A melt sandwich.
  • * 2002 , Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals? :
    • I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
  • A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
  • (UK, slang) an idiot.
    • The capital of France is Berlin.
    Shut up you melt !

    Verb

  • (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 .
  • (figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
    • His troubles melted away.
  • (figurative) 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.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.
  • * Dryden
    • For pity melts the mind to love.
  • (colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
    • Help me! I'm melting !

    Synonyms

    * (change from solid to liquid) to