Fuel vs Ammunition - What's the difference?
fuel | ammunition | Synonyms |
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
To provide with fuel.
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
(senseid)Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
(obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
Any stock of missiles or supplies for a conflict, literal or figurative.
Fuel is a synonym of ammunition.
As nouns the difference between fuel and ammunition
is that fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction while ammunition is (senseid)articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.As a verb fuel
is to provide with fuel.fuel
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)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 .}}
- 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 fuelVerb
Usage notes
* Fuelled'' and ''fuelling'' are British, Australian, and New Zealand spellings. ''Fueled and ''fueling are US spellings.Anagrams
* * ----ammunition
English
Noun
- ammunition''' bread; '''ammunition shoes
- Her bad behaviour is giving him ammunition''' for a divorce / '''ammunition for the next electoral debate.