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An vs Fuel - What's the difference?

an | fuel |

As nouns the difference between an and fuel

is that an is favor, grace while fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

As a verb fuel is

to provide with fuel.

an

English

(wikipedia an)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Article

(head)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • (UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
    • Usage notes
    * The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) an

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic) If, so long as.
    • An it please you, my lord.
  • (archaic) as if; as though.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
    At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.

    Etymology 3

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, (Nuskhuri).

    • Etymology 4

    From the (etyl) preposition an/on.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In each; to or for each; per.
    • I was only going twenty miles an hour.
    Usage notes
    * This is the same as the word a'' in such contexts, modified because of preceding an unpronounced ''h''. ''The train was speeding along at a mile a minute.
    Synonyms
    * per

    References

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    fuel

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=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 .}}
  • Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
    • His books were fuel for the revolution.
    Money is the fuel for economy.
    That film was nightmare fuel !

    Derived terms

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

    Verb

  • To provide with fuel.
  • To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

    • Usage notes

    * Fuelled'' and ''fuelling'' are British, Australian, and New Zealand spellings. ''Fueled and ''fueling are US spellings.

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