Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
FUSES
Noun
fuses
plural of fuse
Verb
fuses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuse
Source: Wiktionary
FUSE
Fuse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fused (fuzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fusing.] Etym: [L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See Foundo to cast, and cf. Futile.]
1. To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
2. To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.
Fuse, v. i.
1. To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
2. To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.
Fuse, n. Etym: [For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.] (Gunnery, Mining, etc.)
Definition: A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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