Fuel










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Fuel \Fu"el\, v. t.

1. To feed with fuel. [Obs.]
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Never, alas I the dreadful name,
That fuels the infernal flame. --Cowley.
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2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.]
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Well watered and well fueled. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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Fuel \Fu"el\, n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL.
focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL.,
fire. See Focus.] [Formerly written also fewel.]

1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which
feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood,
coal, peat, etc.
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2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or
excitement.
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Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as
coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or
blocks.
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fuel
n 1: a substance that can be consumed to produce energy; "more
fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed
alternative fuels for aircraft"
v 1: provide with a combustible substance that provides energy;
"fuel aircraft, ships, and cars"

2: provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel,
fire]

3: take in fuel, as of a ship; "The tanker fueled in Bahrain"

4: stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism"
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Fuel
Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such
as the withered stalks of herbs (Matt. 6:30), thorns (Ps. 58:9;
Eccl. 7:6), animal excrements (Ezek. 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32).
Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of Syria
and Egypt. It is largely brought from the region of Hebron to
Jerusalem. (See COAL.)

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fuel [fjuːəl]
Brennmaterial; Brennstoff; Kraftstoff; Treibstoff

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fuel

fûtôanyag
tüzelôanyag
üzemanyag


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fuel [fjuːəl]
combustível
material com que se aquece

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fuel [fjuːəl]
brännmaterial; bränsle

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fuel

Brennstoff m; Brennmaterial n; Treibstoff m; Kraftstoff m
fuel

mit Brennstoff versorgen
fuel

anheizen; anfachen; schüren
fuel
(up)
tanken
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "fuel":
ammunition, bunker, cater, charge, coal, combustible, detonate,
encourage, encouragement, exacerbate, excite, exhaust, explode,
feed, fill up, food, forage, fossil fuel, fuel up, fulminate, gas,
gas up, incite, incitement, inflame, jet propulsion, kindling,
liquid oxygen, nourish, nourishment, nuclear fuel, nutriment,
nutrition, oil, propellant, propulsion charge, provender,
provision, provocation, provoke, purvey, reaction propulsion,
refuel, rocket propulsion, sell, stimulate, stimulus, stoke,
sustain, sustenance, thrust, tinder, top off, victual



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