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Duel vs Fuel - What's the difference?

duel | fuel |

As nouns the difference between duel and fuel

is that duel is arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor while fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

As verbs the difference between duel and fuel

is that duel is to engage in a battle while fuel is to provide with fuel.

duel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  • Historically, the wager of battleĀ (judicial combat)
  • Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.
  • Verb

  • To engage in a battle.
  • See also

    dual

    Anagrams

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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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