Found 5 hits - Term: fuel, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fuel \fu"el\, v. t.
1. to feed with fuel. obs.
1913 webster
never, alas i the dreadful name,
that fuels the infernal flame. --cowley.
1913 webster
2. to store or furnish with fuel or firing. obs.
1913 webster
well watered and well fueled. --sir h.
wotton.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. anything that serves to feed or increase passion or
excitement.
1913 webster
artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as
coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or
blocks.
1913 webster
see also:
focus fewel. artificial fuel
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
fuel
n : 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 emergy;
"fuel aircraft, ships, and cars"
2: provide with fuel; "oil fires the furnace" syn: fire
3: take in fuel, as of a ship; "the tanker fueled in bahrain"
4: stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism"
also: fuelling, fuelled
see also:
fire fuelling fuelled
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.
see also:
coal
Results 1 - 7 of 7 found about fuel: Fuel
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Fuel, definition of term: Fuel
fuel_pag1.html Fuel Up
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Fuel Up, definition of term: Fuel Up
fuel+up_pag1.html Fuel Oil
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Fuel Oil, definition of term: Fuel Oil
fuel+oil_pag1.html Fuel Cell
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Fuel Cell, definition of term: Fuel Cell
fuel+cell_pag1.html Rocket Fuel
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Rocket Fuel, definition of term: Rocket Fuel
rocket+fuel_pag1.html Fossil Fuel
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Fossil Fuel, definition of term: Fossil Fuel
fossil+fuel_pag1.html Diesel Fuel
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Diesel Fuel, definition of term: Diesel Fuel
diesel+fuel_pag1.html
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