fuel
See also: fül
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfuel (countable and uncountable, plural fuels)
- Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- 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.
- Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
- 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
- A little fuel to get down the mountain.
- (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
- His books were fuel for the revolution.
- Money is the fuel for economy.
- That film was nightmare fuel!
- 2006 June 15, “Ammunition: the fuel of conflict”, in Oxfam International[2]:
- Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging.
Derived terms
editTerms derived from fuel
- add fuel to fire
- add fuel to the fire
- add fuel to the flame
- alternative fuel
- aviation fuel
- biofuel
- biological fuel cell
- bunker fuel
- caramel fuel
- e-fuel
- enzymatic fuel cell
- fossil fuel
- fuel cap
- fuel cell
- fuel cell vehicle
- fuel economy
- fuel filter
- fuel gauge
- fuel injection
- fuel line
- fuel load
- fuel molecule
- fuel-poor
- fuel poverty
- fuel pump
- fuel rod
- fuel station
- fuel tank
- fuel up
- hog fuel
- jet fuel
- microbial fuel cell
- nightmare fuel
- nuclear fuel
- patent fuel
- pour fuel on the fire
- solid fuel
- specific fuel consumption
- suifuel
- top fuel
Translations
editsubstance consumed to provide energy
|
substance that provides nourishment
figurative: something that stimulates
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Verb
editfuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle (US) fueling or fuelling, simple past and past participle (US) fueled or fuelled)
- To provide with fuel.
- 1959 May, “Talking of Trains: By diesel m.u. to Moorgate”, in Trains Illustrated, page 235:
- The workings now employ ten twin-units, which are fuelled at Hornsey but return to Cambridge diesel depot for their weekly maintenance; [...].
- To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
Usage notes
edit- Fuelled and fuelling are Commonwealth spellings. Fueled and fueling are US spellings and common in Canada.
Translations
editto provide with fuel
|
to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English fuel, itself from Old French fouaille.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfuel m (plural fuels)
- Alternative form of fioul
Further reading
edit- “fuel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
editNoun
editfuel
- Alternative form of fewell
Spanish
editEtymology
editNoun
editfuel m (plural fueles)
Further reading
edit- “fuel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʊəl
- Rhymes:English/ʊəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with usage examples
- English verbs
- en:Liquids
- French terms borrowed from English
- French unadapted borrowings from English
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Old French
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns