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fuel 音标拼音: [fj'uəl] [fj'ul] n. 燃料,木炭
vt. 加燃料,供以燃料
vi. 得到燃料 燃料,木炭加燃料,供以燃料得到燃料 fuel燃料 fuel n 1: a substance that can be consumed to produce energy; " more fuel is needed during the winter months"; " they developed alternative fuels for aircraft" v 1: provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; " fuel aircraft, ships, and cars" 2: provide with fuel; " Oil fires the furnace" [ synonym: { fuel}, { fire}] 3: take in fuel, as of a ship; " The tanker fueled in Bahrain" 4: stimulate; " fuel the debate on creationism" Fuel \ Fu" el\, n. [ OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See { Focus}.] [ Formerly written also { fewel.}] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. [ 1913 Webster] { Artificial fuel}, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks. [ 1913 Webster]
Fuel \ Fu" el\, v. t. 1. To feed with fuel. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. -- Cowley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Well watered and well fueled. -- Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " fuel": 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 |
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