Fuel vs Fodder - What's the difference?
fuel | fodder | Synonyms |
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
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, 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.
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
* 1598? , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona ,Act I, scene I:
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168:
(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
(figurative) Something which serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
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(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
* 2009 , "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue.'' (on newsgroup ''rec.puzzles.crosswords )
* 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
Fuel is a synonym of fodder.
As nouns the difference between fuel and fodder
is that fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction while fodder is food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.As verbs the difference between fuel and fodder
is that fuel is to provide with fuel while fodder is (dialect) to feed animals (with fodder).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
* * ----fodder
English
Noun
- The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
- Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
- According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
- In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was(SIC) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
- Insane Roman! (4)'' Look in ''-sane Roman'' and you'll uncover NERO, the ''insane Roman''. Dovetailing the signpost — ''in'' — with the hidden fodder — ''sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.