fuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈfjuːl/
ipa: [ˈfjuwəɫ]
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: fuels
Etymology: From Middle English fewell, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”). Doublet of focus.
Senses: examples: text: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."
ref: 2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, in ABC7 News:
glosses: Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
examples: text: A little fuel to get down the mountain.
ref: 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
glosses: Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
examples: text: His books were fuel for the revolution.
text: Money is the fuel for economy.
text: That film was nightmare fuel!
text: Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging.
ref: 2006 June 15, “Ammunition: the fuel of conflict”, in Oxfam International:
glosses: Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: add fuel to fire
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: add fuel to the fire
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: add fuel to the flame
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word: agrofuel
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word: alternative fuel
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word: aviation fuel
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word: biofuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: biological fuel cell
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word: bunker fuel
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word: caramel fuel
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word: defuel
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word: diesel fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: e-fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: electrofuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: enzymatic fuel cell
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: flash fuel
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word: flash fuelcell vehicle
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: fossil fuel
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word: fuel cap
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word: fuel cell
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word: fueldraulic
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word: fuel duty
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: fuel economy
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word: fueler
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word: fuel filter
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word: fuel gauge
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word: fuelie
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word: fuel injection
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word: fuelish
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word: fuelless
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word: fuel line
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word: fuel load
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word: fuel molecule
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word: fuel-poor
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word: fuel poverty
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word: fuel provider
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word: fuel pump
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word: fuel rod
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word: fuel station
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: fuel supplier
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word: fuel tank
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word: fuel up
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: fuelwood
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word: geofuel
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word: hog fuel
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word: interfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: jet fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: lifefuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: microbial fuel cell
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: monofuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: multifuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: nightmare fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: nonfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: nuclear fuel
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word: oxyfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: patent fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: pour fuel on the fire
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: refuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: ropefuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: sailboat fuel
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word: solid fuel
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word: specific fuel consumption
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: suifuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: superfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: synfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: synthfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: top fuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: unfuel
sense: Terms derived from fuel
word: woodfuel