Noun: fuel
Sample Sentences
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More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
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In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector." [2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, in ABC7 News:]
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A little fuel to get down the mountain. [2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:]
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His books were fuel for the revolution.
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Money is the fuel for economy.
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That film was nightmare fuel!
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Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging. [2006 June 15, “Ammunition: the fuel of conflict”, in Oxfam International:]
Nouns inflected like fuel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”). See: Middle English Nouns '
fuayle', Latin Nouns '
focus', Spanish Nouns '
fuego', Portuguese Nouns '
fogo'.
Verbs referencing "fuel"
Spanish Nouns
fuego, French Nouns
fioul.