fuel
part of speech
noun (fuel, fuels); verb (fuel, fuels, fuelled/fueled, fuelling/fueling)
meaning for a pupil
1) Fuel is something that is burned to make heat or power, like petrol, gas, coal or wood. tree →
2) Food is fuel for your body because it gives you energy. tree →
3) To fuel something means to give it fuel, or to make a feeling or situation stronger. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means wood or other things burned; it is used as a picture of people destroyed by God's anger. In the primary lessons: In science, fuels store energy; burning them releases heat and light. Fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) took millions of years to form and will run out, and burning them adds carbon dioxide to the air; renewable energy like solar and wind does not need fuel. Cars use petrol (UK) or gas/gasoline (US), or diesel. In safety, fuels catch fire easily; keep them away from flames and children. In health, food is fuel: a good breakfast fuels your morning.
examples
- And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings. (Prophets ISA.40.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire. (Prophets ISA.9.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother. (Prophets ISA.9.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Cars need fuel to go. tree →
- Coal, oil and gas are fossil fuels. tree →
- Wood is a fuel for the campfire. tree →
- Food is fuel for your body. tree →
- We stopped to buy fuel at the petrol station. tree →
- Keep fuel away from flames. tree →
- His unkind words fuelled the argument. tree →
- Then go and get fuel and light a fire.’ tree →
note
Usually uncountable (fuel), but «fuels» for kinds. British «fuelled, fuelling» (double l), American «fueled, fueling». Oxygen is needed for fuel to burn, but oxygen is not a fuel. «Add fuel to the fire» = make a bad situation worse.
In the corpora
- For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.
- And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.
- Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water.
- The fire triangle: fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen, and goes out if one is taken away.
- Breakfast gives the body fuel after many hours without food.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fuel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.