scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
cartridge fuse | a fuse cased in a tube |
coaxial cable coax coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
detonating fuse | a fuse containing an explosive |
electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
fuse fuze fusee fuzee primer priming | any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant |
fuse electrical fuse safety fuse | an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded |
ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy guy cable guy wire guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable jumper lead lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
plug fuse | a fuse with a thread that screws into a socket |
power line power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
safety fuse | a slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter, used to ignite detonators from a distance |
time-fuse | a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb) |
tramway tram aerial tramway cable tramway ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
cable cablegram overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
charred pancake cup | a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae |
cable cable length cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
b blend flux mix conflate commingle immix fuse coalesce meld combine merge aaa | mix together different elements, The colors blend well |
fuse | make liquid or plastic by heating, The storm fused the electric mains |
fuse | become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat, The substances fused at a very high temperature |
cable telegraph wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
fuse | equip with a fuse, provide with a fuse |
cable | fasten with a cable, cable trees |
e flip one's lid blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust blow one's stack fly off the handle flip one's wig lose one's temper blow a fuse go ballistic | get very angry and fly into a rage, The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question, Spam makes me go ballistic |
scorched | having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy, Sherman's scorched earth policy |
melted liquid liquified | changed from a solid to a liquid state, rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow |
adust baked parched scorched sunbaked | dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight, a vast desert all adust, land lying baked in the heat, parched soil, the earth was scorched and bare, sunbaked salt flats |