fuel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).
Inflected forms:
form: fuels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fuels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fueling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: fuelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: fueled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: fueled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: fuelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: fuelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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."
gloss: Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A little fuel to get down the mountain.
gloss: Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: His books were fuel for the revolution.
Money is the fuel for economy.
That film was nightmare fuel!
Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging.
gloss: To provide with fuel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] Lieutenant Hirsch appeared with a sheaf of signals in his hand. He took these from the young man and read them through. Mostly they dealt with routine matters of the fuelling and victualling, but one from the Third Naval Member’s office was unexpected.
The workings now employ ten twin-units, which are fuelled at Hornsey but return to Cambridge diesel depot for their weekly maintenance; [...].
"Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."
gloss: To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.
Derived words: add fuel to fire
add fuel to the fire
add fuel to the flame
agrofuel
alternative fuel
aviation fuel
biofuel
biological fuel cell
bunker fuel
caramel fuel
defuel
diesel fuel
e-fuel
electrofuel
enzymatic fuel cell
flash fuel
flash fuelcell vehicle
flex-fuel
fossil fuel
fuel cap
fuel cell
fueldraulic
fuel duty
fuel economy
fueler
fuel filter
fuel gauge
fuelie
fuel injection
fuel injector
fuelish
fuelless
fuel line
fuel load
fuel molecule
fuel-poor
fuel poverty
fuel provider
fuel pump
fuel rod
fuel station
fuel supplier
fuel tank
fuel tourism
fuel up
fuelwood
geofuel
hog fuel
interfuel
jet fuel
lifefuel
microbial fuel cell
monofuel
multifuel
nightmare fuel
nonfuel
nuclear fuel
one-hour fuel
oxyfuel
patent fuel
pour fuel on the fire
refuel
ropefuel
sailboat fuel
solid fuel
specific fuel consumption
suifuel
superfuel
synfuel
synthfuel
top fuel
unfuel
woodfuel
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