Fuel

ahd-5
  • noun. Something consumed to produce energy, especially.
  • noun. A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power.
  • noun. Fissionable material used in a nuclear reactor.
  • noun. Nutritive material metabolized by a living organism; food.
  • noun. Something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion.
  • intransitive verb. To provide with fuel.
  • intransitive verb. To support or stimulate the activity or existence of.
  • intransitive verb. To take in fuel.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To feed or furnish with fuel or combustible matter.
  • noun. Any matter which serves by combustion for the production of fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, oil, etc.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything that serves to feed or increase something conceived as analogous to flame, as passion or emotional excitement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
  • noun. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
  • noun. fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.
  • transitive verb. To feed with fuel.
  • transitive verb. To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  • noun. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • noun. Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
  • verb. to provide fuel
  • verb. to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. provide with fuel
  • noun. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy
  • verb. provide with a combustible substance that provides energy
  • verb. stimulate
  • verb. take in fuel, as of a ship
    • Word Usage
    "Fossil fuel is a word made up by the Devil and promoted by the liberal media … all clear bobcat?"
    cross-reference
    pressed fuel  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    excite  furnish  provide  render  shake  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdul  Boole  Dzhambul  Ewell  Greuel  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ammunition  cash  chemical  coal  energy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ammunition  breeze  bunker  cater  charge  
    variant
    fuelled  fuelling  
    verb-form
    fueled  fueling  fuelled  fuelling  fuels  
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.