Definitions for fuel

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fuel fu·el

Spelling: [fyoo-uh l]

IPA: /ˈfyu əl/

Fuel is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in fuel (eflu).

Definitions for fuel

noun

1. combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
2. something that gives nourishment; food.
3. an energy source for engines, power plants, or reactors:
4. something that sustains or encourages; stimulant:

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with fuel.

verb (used without object)

1. to obtain or replenish fuel.

Origin of fuel

1300-50; Middle English fuel(le), feuel Old French feuaile Vulgar Latin *focālia, neuter plural of *focālis of the hearth, fuel. See focus, -al

Examples for fuel

fuel consumption is a prime factor in the production of engine power.

Early this year a test flight proved that the fuel being used for the rocket would never meet that goal.

The fuel for the mission house is brought from the South by the steamer.

Then a critical change was ordered—a fuel using a new formula that was thought to be more stable and deliver more power.

Every once in a while women threw armfuls of fuel on the blaze.

Yates gathered some fuel, and managed to coax the dying embers into a blaze.

You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there.

It was an old, rusted AMC Pacer that was missing, among other things, a fuel door.

As they passed the runway, bullets shot up from the tall grass, puncturing a fuel tank.

The fuel must be power-charged to safely handle the weight and time quotients.