Fuel

Noun

 * 1) Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
 * 2) Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
 * 3)  Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
 * His books were fuel for the revolution.
 * Money is the fuel for economy.

Derived terms

 * fossil fuel
 * fuel cell
 * nuclear fuel
 * solid fuel

Verb

 * 1) to provide fuel
 * 2) to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater

Adjectives for Fuel
premium; Inflammable; volatile; self-sustaining; exhausted; available; solid; fresh.

Verbs for Fuel
acquire—; burn—; employ as—; fill with— furnish—; ignite—; necessitate—; obtain— produce—; replenish—; require—; select— supply—; —explodes; —flames; —heats; — illumines; —inflames; —sustains.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology

 * feuaile:, from feu:

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: brulaĵo
 * Estonian: kütus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: bahan bakar
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:


 * Kurdish: mazot
 * Macedonian:, огрев
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, , ogrev, toplivo
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: filamastöf
 * Welsh: tanwydd


 * Finnish:


 * Greek:


 * Finnish: käyttövoima


 * : kuras (1); degalai m, pl (2)
 * : brensel (1,2,3); brennstoff  (2,3); drivstoff  (2,3)
 * : brensel (1,2,3); brennstoff  (2,3); drivstoff  (2,3)

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, täyttää polttoaineella
 * German:


 * Polish: tankować
 * Slovak: tankovať


 * German: anheizen, schüren


 * : לתדלק (Le'tad'lek)

Anagrams

 * flue
 * fule

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) heating oil