Fuel Definition
fuel
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English
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Old French: feuaile, from feu (“fire”)
Pronunciation
Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: FuelWikipedia fuel (plural fuels)
- Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
- Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
- (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
- His books were fuel for the revolution.
- Money is the fuel for economy.
Derived terms
- fossil fuel
- fuel cell
- nuclear fuel
- solid fuel
Verb
fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle fueling, simple past and past participle fueled) fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle fuelling, simple past and past participle fuelled)
- to provide fuel
- to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater
Usage notes
- fuelled and fuelling are mainly British spellings.
Translations
to provide fuel
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Etymology
From English
Noun
fuel m. (plural fuels)
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