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fuel English

Meaning fuel meaning

What does fuel mean?
Definitions in simple English

fuel Noun

— Something use to make energy. My car uses gasoline for fuel to make it go. My body uses food for fuel, it's what makes me go.

fuel Verb

— When you fuel something, you add on to it. His words fuelled my anger.

fuel

— noun a substance that can be consumed to produce energy more fuel is needed during the winter months they developed alternative fuels for aircraft — verb provide with a combustible substance that provides energy fuel aircraft, ships, and cars — verb (= fire) provide with fuel Oil fires the furnace — verb take in fuel, as of a ship The tanker fueled in Bahrain — verb stimulate fuel the debate on creationism

Synonyms fuel synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fuel?

fuel English » English

firewood fire oil wood propellant petroleum petrol combustible refuel nourish kindling gas foment firing feed wood and charcoal think tank swill supply stoke stock stir up stampede slop scent reinforcement rack up purvey provoke provide for provide propellent procure obtain motor spirit matches kindle joss stick inflame incense ignition heat get gasoline gas up furnish firestick fire-wood fire up

Topics fuel topics

What do people use fuel to talk about?
Daily life Fire

Fuel
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals

Conjugation fuel conjugation

How do you conjugate fuel?

fuel · verb

Examples fuel examples

How do I use fuel in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Gasoline is used for fuel.
Gasoline is no longer a cheap fuel.
Gasoline is more flammable than fuel oil.
It only adds fuel to the fire.
Fossil fuel prices shot through the roof.
There was a shortage of fuel.
We must fuel the machine.
Your stupid remark just added fuel to the flames.
Food is fuel for our bodies.
The fuel tank in the car is full.
A car is a machine for turning fuel into obesity.
Lignite is a fossil fuel.
Which is the fuel that stinks the most?
I ran out of fuel.
What kind of fuel do you use in this machine?
Our fossil-fuel based industrial civilization will eventually collapse.
Don't shout at the crying child. It only adds fuel to the fire.
The car consumes a lot of fuel.
What is the fuel mileage of this car?
Petrol is no longer a cheap fuel.
This heating device uses oil as fuel.
It seemed the quarrel would finally be talked out, when Mark added fuel to the fire by bringing up the question of who was guilty.
The fuel level is below empty.

Movie subtitles

In any case, there is no fuel.
We must gather fuel and return here fast.
First fuel.
The fuel?
Fuel?
Analyze every drop of fuel.
Of those, 11 are outside of the fuel range of this chopper.
We've no fuel.
I know where I can get some fuel. I've got my plans later.
Now you, Harding, are to assist Gordon with his fuel problem. and place your knowledge of poison gas at our disposal.
I need fuel and gas!
Neither fuel nor gas.
Imagine having that fuel there, waiting for us!
Won't his liberation fuel Algeria's holy war?
Stand by. The booster's fuel will be depleted soon.
These were the days before oil fuel made stoking a lady's job - when stokers earned their pay in sweat and coal-dust.
He must have run out of fuel.
The co-pilot's seat was replaced by an extra fuel tank.
This train is out of fuel.
They can't follow us without any fuel.
Oil to fuel your Navy, to feed your tanks, there it goes up in smoke by the millions of gallons.
So, you carry on this sabotage trick to use up our fuel supply.
When Indians get too old to travel they're left behind with a little food and fuel.
Plenty of fuel in the tank?
Analyze every drop of fuel. Track every grain of sand.
Well, her fuel system is not stable, so.
The copilot's seat was replaced by an extra fuel tank.
That's aviation fuel.
Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire.
We use too much fuel down here.
I believe that a man is fire, and a woman fuel.
So your buzz boys flew around, they couldn't find anything, so now you're mad and want me to pay for the fuel they burned up or the time they wasted or something else real smart.
How much fuel have you got left?
How much fuel did he have left?
How much fuel did she have left?
There's your tailpipe heat, your fuel pressure gauge. Here's your tachometer.
Have you got your emergency fuel switch on?

News and current affairs

Countries that wish to develop nuclear energy but not nuclear bombs should be given international guarantees of fuel supply and disposal of spent fuel.
Such a resolution would also include a carrot by guaranteeing Iran access to the non-dangerous parts of the nuclear energy fuel cycle.
It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Russia would be furious, because it fears that Kosovo's secession - whether or not it is internationally recognized - might fuel separatist movements in the former Soviet empire.
Responding to water scarcity by re-using and treating wastewater, or through deep-well pumping and desalination, will increase fossil-fuel use.
This work is set to expand as more than 40 million tons of invasive alien plants are harvested for power-station fuel.
This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.
The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.
Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.
Should the US choose to face al-Sadr and his forces head on, they risk alienating Iraq's largest sectarian community, the Shi'a, adding fuel to the anti-occupation resistance and thus probably dooming Bush to failure.
The failure of China to move more quickly to encourage higher domestic spending commensurate with its higher incomes added fuel to the fire.
In short, the Lisbon Strategy could lead Europe to become a real power in the coming decades, or it could fuel further growth of Euroskepticism.
Even in countries where oil revenues could fuel a significant amount of research, Arab rulers did not encourage such investment, with the result that their societies have not prospered as much as they might have.
Russia indicates that it is willing to provide such fuel services.
After all, desertification and deforestation helped fuel the rise, two decades earlier, of the Maoist guerilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru.
Other resources like fuel oil, diesel, light crude, solar, and gas are also available as means of electricity generation, but their costs are all quite prohibitive.
Coal is also much more widely distributed geographically than any other fossil fuel.
After all, by allowing people to spend more than they have, borrowed money can fuel growth.
These populist movements' energy can be directed for good or ill, but demagogues in America embrace similar tactics to fuel their rise to visibility and power.
Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk - the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.
Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.

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