fuel
Other forms: fuels; fueled; fuelling
What do you and your car have in common? You both run on fuel. Whether its gasoline or nutritious food, fuel produces energy to get up and go.
Fuel can also act as a verb that has several different meanings, all related to stimulating something or providing energy. Your brother might fuel up on whole-wheat bread with peanut butter a few hours before a big game. A teacher assigns readings to fuel meaningful class discussion. Memories of your mom's delicious dinners might fuel your desire to learn to cook.
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a substance that can be consumed to produce energy“more fuel is needed during the winter months”“they developed alternative fuels for aircraft”types:biomassplant materials and animal waste used as fuelbutaneoccurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuelscharcoal, wood coala carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of aircoal gasgaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lightingcokecarbon fuel produced by distillation of coalfirefuel that is burning and is used as a means for cookingfossil fuelfuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen contentgasohola gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corngas, gasolene, gasoline, petrola volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion enginesilluminantsomething that can serve as a source of lightcoal oil, kerosene, kerosine, lamp oila flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heatersmethanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirita light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcoholnuclear fuelfuel (such as uranium) that can be used in nuclear reactors as a source of electricitypropanecolorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuelred firecombustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworkswater gasa mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coalfirewoodwood used for fueltown gascoal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial usedervdiesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines; from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)coalfossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous periodfirelighter(a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke firenapalmgasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowersgas oilan oil formed through distillation of petroleum of intermediate boiling range and viscositycordwoodfirewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cordbacklogthe large log at the back of a hearth firepine knota joint of pine wood used for fuelpunksubstance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)type of:substancea particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
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provide with fuel
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take in fuel, as of a ship
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provide with a combustible substance that provides energy
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stimulate
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