What's the difference between furze and fuze?

Furze


Definition:

  • (n.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Every 22 August it is wreathed in flowers, on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, when the last Plantagenet lost his horse in marshy ground, and then his life and his crown, which legend says rolled from his dying head under a furze bush.
  • (2) His death at Bosworth, where according to legend the crown handed to Henry Tudor was found under a furze bush where it had rolled from Richard's dying head, launched a new dynasty.

Fuze


Definition:

  • (n.) A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We'd just set up The Fuze , a computer for kids based on Raspberry Pi, which has an emphasis on teaching children BASIC.
  • (2) A project called FUZE has wrapped the Raspberry Pi in a case with a keyboard and "Project Cards" to teach programming, with the aim of appealing to schools.

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