fuel

English

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Etymology

Old French fouaille, from feu (“fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfjuːəl̩/, X-SAMPA: /"fju:@l/
• Rhymes: -ʊəl

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

fuel (plural fuels)

1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, 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.

2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
3. (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

Translations

substance consumed to provide energy

• Arabic: وقود (ar) (waqūd) m
• Azeri: yanacaq (az)
• Belarusian: паліва (be) (páliva) n 
• Bengali: জ্বালানি (bn) (jbālāni)
• Bulgarian: гориво (bg) (górivo) n 
• Catalan: carburant (ca) m, combustible (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燃料 (cmn) (ránliào)

• Czech: palivo (cs) n
• Danish: brændstof (da)
• Dutch: brandstof (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: brulaĵo (eo)
• Estonian: kütus (et)
• Finnish: polttoaine (fi)
• French: carburant (fr) m, combustible (fr)
• Georgian: საწვავის (ka) (satsvavis) 
• German: Brennstoff (de) m, Treibstoff (de) m
• Greek: καύσιμο (el) (káfsimo) n 
• Hebrew: דלק (he) (délek) m
• Icelandic: eldsneyti (is) n
• Indonesian: bahan bakar (id)
• Interlingua: combustibile (ia)
• Irish: breosla (ga) m
• Japanese: 燃料 (ja) (ねんりょう, nenryō)

• Korean: 연료 (ko) (yeollyo) (燃料 (ko))
• Kurdish: mazot (ku)
• Macedonian: гориво (mk) (górivo) n, огрев (mk) (ógrev) m
• Norwegian: drivstoff (no)
• Polish: paliwo (pl)
• Portuguese: combustível (pt) m
• Romanian: combustibil (ro) m, carburant (ro) m
• Russian: топливо (ru) (tóplivo) n , горючее (ru) (gorjúčeje) n 
• Scottish Gaelic: connadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паливо (sh) n, гориво (sh) n, огрев (sh) m, топливо (sh) n

  Roman: palivo (sh) n, gorivo (sh) n, ogrev (sh) m, toplivo (sh) n

• Sindhi: ٻارڻُ (sd) (Baarann-u)
• Slovak: palivo (sk) n
• Slovene: gorivo (sl) n
• Swedish: bränsle (sv)
• Tagalog: panggatong (tl), pampasiklab (tl)
• Turkish: yakıt (tr)
• Ukrainian: паливо (uk) (pályvo) n 
• Vietnamese: nhiên liệu (vi) (燃料 (vi))
• Volapük: filamastöf (vo)
• Welsh: tanwydd (cy) m

substance that provides nourishment

• Finnish: ravinto (fi)

• Greek: τροφή (el) (trofí) f 

figurative: something that stimulates

• Finnish: käyttövoima (fi)

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• Serbo-Croatian: gȍrīvo (sh) n
• Lithuanian: kuras m (1); degalai m, pl (2)
• Norwegian: brensel n (1,2,3); brennstoff n (2,3); drivstoff n (2,3)

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)

1. to provide fuel
2. to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater

Usage notes

• fuelled and fuelling are mainly Australian, New Zealand, and British spellings.
• fueled and fueling are mainly US spellings.

Translations

to provide fuel

• Dutch: tanken (nl)
• Finnish: tankata (fi), täyttää polttoaineella (fi)
• German: betanken (de)

• Polish: tankować
• Slovak: tankovať (sk)

to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater

• French: alimenter (fr), attiser (fr)

• German: anheizen, schüren

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: לתדלק (Le'tad'lek)

Anagrams

• flue
• fule

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Etymology

From English

Noun

fuel m (plural fuels)

1. heating oil

See also

• fioul