fuel

English

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Etymology

Old French: feuaile, from feu (“fire”)

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

Wikipedia fuel (plural fuels)

1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
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

Chinese: Mandarin: 燃料 (cmn) (ránliào) Czech: palivo (cs) n. Dutch: brandstof (nl) m. and f. Esperanto: brulaĵo (eo) Estonian: kütus (et) Finnish: polttoaine (fi) French: carburant (fr) m., combustible (fr) German: Brennstoff (de) m., Treibstoff (de) m. Greek: καύσιμο (el) (káfsimo) n. Hebrew: דלק (he) (délek) m. Indonesian: bahan bakar (id) Interlingua: combustibile (ia) Irish: breosla (ga) m.

Kurdish: mazot (ku) Macedonian: гориво (mk) (górivo) n., огрев (mk) (ógrev) m. Polish: paliwo (pl) Portuguese: combustível (pt) m. Romanian: combustibil (ro) m., carburant (ro) m. Russian: топливо (ru) (tóplivo) n., горючее (ru) n. Scottish Gaelic: connadh (gd) m. Serbian: palivo (sr) n., gorivo (sr) n., ogrev (sr) m., toplivo (sr) n. Slovak: palivo (sk) n. Slovene: gorivo (sl) Swedish: bränsle (sv) 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 (hr) 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 British 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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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