time-fuse vs fuze

time-fuse and fuze both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
time-fuse	Yes	No	No	No
fuze	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fuze is a hypernym of time-fuse; that is, fuze is a word with a broader meaning than time-fuse:

time-fuse: a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb)
fuze: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

Other hypernyms of time-fuse include fuse, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming.

time-fuse (noun)	fuze (noun)
a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb)	any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant